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...wife of exiled Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov spent her 63rd birthday surrounded by three grandchildren at Disney World in Florida, mesmerized by the fantasies conjured up in the Magic Kingdom. For the past six months, Yelena Bonner has been nurtured by her family and awed by the wonders of the U.S. She has soaked up sun in the Virgin Islands, seen Cats on Broadway and stayed up all night with her 85-year-old mother Ruth, leafing through the pages of an old family photo album. Nonetheless, says Alexei Semyonov, a son from her previous marriage, "she never really could...
This week Bonner returns to Moscow, and then, presumably, will rejoin her husband in Gorky. Sakharov, a Nobel Peace laureate and leading human-rights activist, was abducted in 1980 from a Moscow street corner and eventually bundled off to the industrial city of Gorky. Bonner, for her part, tirelessly shuttled 250 miles to bring Sakharov food parcels, then returned to Moscow with his latest thoughts for Western journalists, who are barred from Gorky. In 1984 she was convicted of slandering the Soviet system and forced to join her husband in exile...
...dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which...
...permitted to emigrate to Israel, received a hero's welcome to the U.S. last week. During his first American visit, Shcharansky, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons and work camps, is to meet President Reagan and other top American officials, as well as Soviet Human Rights Activist Yelena Bonner, who is currently recuperating from heart surgery in the U.S. But Shcharansky's best news, disclosed on the eve of his visit, is that he and his wife Avital, 35, separated for so many years, are expecting their first child in the fall...
When an actor plays a real person, the subject is not always thrilled. On the day Yelena Bonner arrived in Italy for medical treatment last December, the HBO film Sakharov was on TV, and she watched. "I liked it so much that I cried in two places," said Bonner. Last week she sought out Jason Robards, who portrayed her dissident husband, to tell him how moved she had been. Bonner was in Washington to address the National Academy of Sciences, and she went over to the National Theater, where Robards was participating in the Helen Hayes Awards. The actor kissed...