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...TIME staff members, a breaking news story that requires coordinating coverage of events occurring in swift succession in several cities presents a special challenge. This week's dramatic story of the release and arrival in the West of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky was just such an occasion. Days before the Soviets handed over Shcharansky, Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter set about covering the final days of delicate negotiations for Shcharansky's freedom. He dispatched Correspondent John Kohan, Russian fur hat and extra sweaters in hand, to Berlin to stake out the Glienicker Bridge. Says Kohan, who speaks both German...
...throwing himself into the snow. "I said I would not leave without the Psalms that had helped me so much," he later explained. "I lay down in the snow and said, 'Not another step.' " The guards scrutinized the book carefully, then handed it back. The elaborately negotiated release of Anatoli Shcharansky, one of the Soviet Union's most famous political prisoners and a symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews and human rights dissidents alike, proceeded as planned...
...Milgrom, 77, and his brother Leonid, 39, a request that Soviet authorities have implied would be fulfilled within a few weeks. Even though she was not able to see her younger son before his sudden departure, Ida Milgrom, who like her daughter-in-law had fought hard for Anatoli's release, was overwhelmed by the good news. Leonid was at her side. "We'll be celebrating with champagne and vodka tonight, even though they aren't so easy to find anymore," he said, referring to the government's current antialcohol campaign. A friend chimed in, "You should consider yourself lucky...
...goes according to plan this week, the famous Soviet dissident Anatoli Shcharansky will join the ranks of cold war captives who have crossed the Glienicker Bridge to freedom. The news that Shcharansky and several others would be swapped for a number of East bloc spies in Western custody leaked to Bild Zeitung by what it called "Moscow Kremlin circles" and confirmed last week by European officials, caused an instant sensation in the West...
...Anatoli Shcharansky, 38, is only one of an estimated 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R., but he has come to stand as a compelling symbol of Soviet repression. A Jewish computer specialist, Shcharansky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972, at a time when long pent-up yearnings for freedom and justice were coming into the open in the Soviet Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time...