Word: anatoli
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...Israel as the week passed, Anatoli Shcharansky tried as best he could to spend some private time with the wife from whom he had been separated for so many years. As for the future, it was too early to make plans, he said. Because he has fallen far behind in his chosen field, mathematics and computer technology, he acknowledged that it would be "something of a problem" to return to his old line of work. But nobody who knew the brave, resourceful and clever young man of conscience in Moscow in former times doubted that he would find ways...
...Anatoli Shcharansky's happiest day began 2,000 miles away as a dusting of snow glistened on the stone centaurs that guard the western end of Berlin's Glienicker Bridge, where a boldly lettered sign warns passersby, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading...
...been freed, as a reflection of slightly improving relations between Moscow and Washington, was due in large part to the unrelenting efforts of his wife Avital. The Shcharanskys had been separated since the day after their 1974 wedding, when Avital emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel, convinced that Anatoli would be permitted to follow within a few months. After his conviction in 1978, she devoted her life to securing his release. Jimmy Carter pursued the case, and so did Ronald Reagan, who discussed it with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit meeting last November...
Almost unanimously, the friends of Anatoli Shcharansky, while rejoicing at his release, agreed that it did not mean the Soviet Union had changed its attitude toward dissidents. "I am overjoyed that Tolya is a free man, after so many years of suffering," said Naum Meiman, 74, a retired mathematician in Moscow. Like Shcharansky, Meiman was an early member of the Moscow branch of the Helsinki Watch Group, whose aim was to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki human rights agreement. Adds Meiman: "But his release is not a victory for us because we are now further away from reaching...
...small, borrowed apartment in Jerusalem where Anatoli and Avital Shcharansky are staying bears a striking resemblance to the cluttered flats in the Soviet Union where dissidents once congregated. Folders of correspondence and masses of newspaper clippings lie scattered about--some of the detritus of Avital's ceaseless nine-year campaign to rouse world opinion on her husband's behalf. Gifts and congratulatory messages are displayed on every available surface: a silver kiddush cup from a Jewish congregation in New York, a crayon drawing by a child that shows a flourishing green tree and Israeli flag. Floating on the ceiling...