BAN ON SAKHAROV

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 10 December 1975, Page 5

BAN ON SAKHAROV

Kantorovich reticent (N.Z P.A.Reuter —Copyright) STOCKHOLM. The Soviet Union economist, Professor Leonid Kantorovich, joint winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, has refused to discuss the Government’s refusal to allow Peace Prize winner, Dr Andrei Sakharov, to attend the prize-giving ceremony in Oslo. Dr Kantorovich told a news conference in Stockholm: “The explanations of the circumstances why he did not come abroad have been presented in detail by our press and by our authorities. I have nothing to add.” Dr Sakharov, the Soviet Union’s most outspoken human rights campaigner, who worked on the Russians’ hydrogen bomb programme, was refused a visa on the ground that he possessed State secrets. Professor Kantorovich and his co-winner, Professor Tjalling Koopmans, of the United States, shared the 630,000 kroner ($120,000) award for their work on the theory of the optimum allocations of resources. Their prize, together with those for literature, chemistry, physics, and medicine, will be presented by King Carl Gustaf on Wednesday.