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Read-Out Day protests and Soviet scientist plea across pages
Mayor Edward Koch led a banned book read out outside New York Public Library with authors like Isaac Asimov and Nat Hentoff denouncing censorship. In Moscow Sakharov urged scientists to defend human rights and oppose a Stalinist return, while in Baton Rouge Gleason and Pryor discussed The Toy with a young actor. Washington figures sent birthday cheer to Sen. Pressler as pundits joked about aging.
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New York
Edward Koch
Anne Frank
Montello
Wis
Warrington
Isaac Asimov
Moscow
Andrei Sakharov
Volga
Gorky
Sakharov
Yelena Bonner
Baton Rouge
Jackie Gleason
Richard Pryor
Pryor
Gleason
New Orleans
Scott Schwartz
New Jersey
Gleason and
Washington
Larry Pressler
Reagan
South Dakota
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Harrison Schmitt
New Mexico
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