Word: bonner
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...word a short while back that Yelena Bonner, ailing wife of the dissident Andrei Sakharov, might seek refuge in the U.S. embassy. American officials alerted the Soviets and offered suggestions aimed at minimizing the problem. The Soviets, enraged, accused the U.S. of plotting with the Sakharovs. Shultz's efforts to open some kind of dialogue with Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who has been considered the Soviet who best understood American ways, have been fruitless...
...Prize in 1975 and who has been exiled to Gorky, 230 miles east of Moscow, since January 1980, would be permitted to leave. Sakharov has refused previous invitations to travel outside the country, fearing that he would not be allowed to return. But his wife, Human Rights Activist Yelena Bonner, reportedly said recently that he "felt isolated" and indicated that he might accept a new invitation. Novelist Georgi Vladimov, another prominent dissident, has already accepted a similar guest professorship at the University of Cologne in West Germany. The pattern seemed to fit in with reports that Andropov was giving priority...
...communications with the outside world. Last month the Kremlin expelled Newsweek Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, accusing him of unethical journalistic practices. The Soviets arrested several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, an organization set up to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act signed by 35 nations...
...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 the news that Alexeyeva was free to leave. Semyonov, 25, who is Bonner's son by a previous marriage, was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1978. He is a graduate student at Brandeis...
Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...