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...imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western end of the 128-meter Glienicker Bridge was teeming with reporters and camera crews. They were eagerly staked out for what the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung melodramatically heralded as "the biggest human swap ever...
...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...
...West German newspaper Bild reported that Sakharov was in the middle of another hunger strike when Bonner received the exit visa this week...
...strange machinery of Soviet public relations continues to grind out communications about dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov. In West Germany the mass-circulation daily Bild last week published a claim by Moscow-based Journalist Victor Louis, a favorite KGB conduit for slipping information to the West, that Sakharov, 63, had been released from a hospital in his exile home of Gorky. The scientist, he said, has resumed his private life by joining his wife in their apartment, and "is healthy again." The day after the Louis report appeared, Western journalists learned that the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics...
...Western world had a different opinion of who was responsible. The left-of-center Rome daily La Repubblica summed up the reaction in the bold headline THE HAWKS OF MOSCOW HAVE WON! The West German tabloid Bild carried a similar refrain: HONECKER, NYET! Said a top-ranking U.S. official: "This has got to impress everyone in the East bloc. They all want more autonomy, but the message from Moscow is that there are limits...