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...only one way: in defeat and, possibly, death by starvation. Then, four days after the dissident leader's hunger strike led to his being hospitalized, the Kremlin backed down. In a rare concession, the Soviet leadership surrendered to Sakharov's demand that his daughter-in-law Liza Alexeyeva, 26, be allowed to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, in the U.S. Sakharov, 60, and his wife Yelena Bonner, 58, who had joined him in the hunger strike, broke their fast upon hearing the news that Alexeyeva was free to leave. Semyonov, 25, who is Bonner...
...that passed word of the Kremlin's decision to Alexeyeva that she could go to the U.S., thus halting Sakharov's fast. Alexeyeva, who married Semyonov by proxy last June, had been previously denied a visa to leave for the U.S. On Saturday, Alexeyeva boarded a train to visit the Sakharovs in the industrial city of Gorky, where the couple has been living in exile for the past 23 months...
Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...
Sakharov explained that Liza had been denied permission to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, 25, a graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Semyonov had emigrated to the U.S. 3½ years ago, but Alexeyeva was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. When they were married by proxy last summer in Butte, Mont., Soviet authorities did not acknowledge the ceremony...
...developed a persistent cough on the fourth day of his food strike. He and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 59, the mother of Alexei Semyonov, are drinking only mineral water to prevent dehydration. "His will is strong-it's his body that I'm worried about," said Liza Alexeyeva in Moscow. Before leaving Moscow last week to rejoin her husband in Gorky, where he has been exiled since 1980, Bonner said that she and Sakharov intended "to see it through. Until Liza leaves...