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...activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy Sakharov's own memoirs, they have been preserved, are now in the West, and will eventually...
When it became clear, well in advance of last week's release of Newsman Nicholas Daniloff from the Soviet Union, that some dissidents would be included in the deal, the tantalizing, inevitable question was: Would Andrei Sakharov be among them? His wife...
...publishing, and TIME is excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
...hurt before, but only in passing. I was aware of it, but I never thought much about it; I really didn't have time to think. By this time, I had already made more than 100 round trips between Moscow and Gorky, 250 miles away, to which Andrei had been sent in exile in 1980. Many of our friends were in trouble, some arrested, some searched, some interrogated...
...Andrei slept badly. He cried in his sleep, and I woke him twice. In his sleep he thought he was still in the hospital...