The World : Kohl Joins Nobel Protest

Chancellor Helmut Kohl joined in an appeal to Norway’s Nobel Prize committee to refrain from awarding the 1985 Peace Prize to Soviet doctor Yevgeny I. Chazov on Dec. 10 in Oslo. Kohl, head of West Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, and nine other European Christian Democratic party leaders charged in a letter to the committee that Chazov was involved in human rights abuses. They said that Chazov was among 25 members of the Soviet Academy of Science who slandered dissident Andrei D. Sakharov in 1973, a move that led to Sakharov’s internal exile in 1980. Chazov is co-winner of the peace prize with an American, Dr. Bernard Lown. They are co-chairmen of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.