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...hour, five customs officials carefully inspected her four suitcases. They counted her foreign currency--lire and dollars--and raised their eyebrows at the four jars of caviar she had with her, before a guard finally checked her travel documents. Then, for the first time in six years, Yelena Bonner, 62, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov, was finally free to leave the Soviet Union...
...held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the White House to announce his new arms initiative. For their part, the Soviets showed signs of new flexibility about their own proposals, suggested they might halt work on a controversial radar facility and offered an exit visa to Yelena Bonner, the ailing wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov...
Perhaps in response to Reagan's recent admonishments on human-rights abuses, Moscow made its offer to allow Bonner, 62, an exit visa to seek medical treatment in the West. She and her husband Sakharov, a distinguished physicist, are kept in "internal exile" in Gorky, an industrial city 250 miles from Moscow. In a telegram received by a friend on Friday, Bonner indicated that she would probably not leave until the end of the month-- after the summit is over...
University Hospital's Media Relations Manager Norman J. Sherman said that the hospital had offered to treat Bonner's heart disease and had received a "positive and appreciative response" from the family...
...Bonner, a pediatrician who married Sakharov in 1971, has been allowed to go abroad three times for eye problems, most recently in 1979. Although Soviet officials last month asked Bonner to leave the country immediately, she postponed the trip until her husband recovered from his fast. At the end of November, Bonner plans to go to Italy to consult an opthalmologist, Yankelevich said...