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...Moscow's ^ international press center to be briefed on an entirely different subject, the Kremlin's decision to resume nuclear testing after a self-imposed 16-month moratorium. During the question-and-answer session, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky was asked about reports that Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, who was also being detained in Gorky, were about to be freed...
...fact, he said, he had an announcement to make on that very subject. Sakharov had asked the Soviet leadership for permission to move to Moscow, Petrovsky related, and the request had been considered by the appropriate organizations. As a result, said Petrovsky, Sakharov's wish had been granted and Bonner had been pardoned for "slandering" the Soviet state. He continued, "Academician Sakharov and Mrs. Bonner may return to Moscow, and Academician Sakharov may actively join the scientific life of the Academy of Sciences...
...Sakharovs, who were expected to leave Gorky this week, the long exile of deprivation, hunger strikes, illness and ever present loneliness was apparently over. In Newton, Mass., Bonner's daughter Tatyana Yankelevich was exultant. "We are happy to hear the news," she said. "It is overwhelming...
...protests have continued. Western officials have harped on the plight of the Sakharovs as an example of the Soviets' failures in the area of human rights. Many other activists and dissidents remain in prison, internal exile or psychiatric hospitals, to be sure, but none as famous as Sakharov and Bonner. Over the past year, Gorbachev has tried to reverse the Soviet Union's negative human-rights image by releasing two well-known activists, Anatoli Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov. Another, Anatoli Marchenko, 48, died in prison in early December, the victim of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike. His death...
Tatiana Yankelevich, daughter of Soviet dissidents Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov, also addressed participants...