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One leader held no official position, but gained great moral authority. With Solzhenitsyn driven into exile, Nuclear Physicist Andrei Sakharov remained the most important voice of dissent in the Soviet Union. His pleas for human rights and nuclear disarmament became more insistent in 1975, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Kremlin refused to let him go to Oslo to accept it.
If moderation was the keynote among most of the world's leaders, the Terrorist had a claim to being Man of the Year. In the name of various causes, fringe groups demonstrated an appalling willingness to sacrifice innocent lives and disrupt the peace of nations. Whether they called themselves the Irish Republican Army, Palestine Liberationists, Basque separatists, South Moluccan independents or the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, they were an alarming force for disorder.