Soviets Name Pass After U.S. Protester
A mountain pass in the Soviet Far East has been named for an American scientist who is on a hunger strike against U.S. nuclear testing, the official news agency Tass reported Thursday.
Former NASA astrophysicist Charles Hyder began his fast in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23.
Tass reported from Khabarovsk that a science-and-sport expedition recently returned from the Aesop and Am-Alin mountain ranges, where they named a previously unexplored pass for Hyder.
“His name must not be forgotten,” Tass quoted the expedition club’s chairman, Sergei Chobotov, as saying.
Soviet officials and the state-run press have given wide publicity to Hyder, who has been subsisting on a diet of warm saltwater and refuses to give up his fast despite his seriously weakened condition.
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