US scientist says exile will hurt US-Soviet flow
| Washington
The president of the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that the arrest and internal exile of Andrei D. Sakharov, the dissident Soviet physicist, will seriously harm future US-Soviet scientific exchanges.
In a statement dictated to the academy from China, where he is on a visit, Dr. Philip Handler called the Soviet moves to silence Dr. Sakharov "a challenge to further cooperation and an act of deliberate bad will".