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...Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
...Polish Communists for tolerating counterrevolution: "We are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders?yes, our common security." In early July, a chill settled over Warsaw: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dourly descended upon the Polish capital with yet another admonition against any liberalizing tendency within the party...
Looking like the shy and slightly awkward newlyweds they are, Alexei Semyonov, 25, and his wife, Liza Alexeyeva, 26, were reunited in Boston last week after 3½ years of separation. Alexei, the stepson of Soviet Dissident and 1975 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, 60, and Liza, fell in love when they were students in Moscow. Alexei emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 and arranged a proxy marriage with Liza last June. The Soviet government, however, refused to permit Liza to join her husband. Only after a much publicized, 17-day hunger strike by Sakharov and his wife-now living...
...days it seemed certain that Andrei Sakharov's war of wills with the Kremlin could end 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...
...once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked about his relationship with his son Yuri. "We don't see each other much," said Brezhnev, "because of work-his and mine...