The World - News from Jan. 23, 1989

Soviet human rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov was nominated by a mass public meeting as Moscow’s at-large candidate in the March 26 election for the new Congress of People’s Deputies. The meeting was organized by the Memorial Society, an unofficial group dedicated to the victims of the late dictator Josef Stalin. Sakharov, 67, was chosen last week as a candidate for the Oktybr district of Moscow. The second nomination makes him a candidate for the entire city, and in that contest, Sakharov is expected to run against Politburo member Vitaly I. Vorotnikov. The new congress, part of the reform effort in the Soviet Union, will choose more than 400 of its members to form a more active Supreme Soviet (Parliament).