The World - News from Feb. 16, 1989

Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet human rights activist, said he will not run in next month’s parliamentary elections unless he is nominated by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, whose leadership rejected his candidacy last month. Sakharov, a nuclear physicist, declared in a statement that he will not accept any of the other nominations he has received from around the country since Soviet scientists excluded him and several other prominent reformers in favor of conservative academy officials. “I regard myself as inseparably tied to the academy, of which I have been a member for 35 years,” Sakharov told the weekly newspaper Moscow News.