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...Baker has been confronted by only one critic of his move to the Treasury. After the announcement, he talked on the phone with Mary Bonner Baker, his seven-year-old daughter by his second wife. "Daddy, I don't want you to do this!" said the articulate, self-confident youngster. "You'll be leaving the White House," she protested, "and I won't get to see the President so much...
...sentences that depart from the standard. After a five-year period, parole will be phased out entirely. Under current law, 80% of criminals are paroled after serving one-third of their sentences. In the future, good behavior can earn only a 15% reduction of a sentence. U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner of Los Angeles hails the provision as a kind of truth-in-pack-aging measure for federal courts. "Now a sentence will mean what it says," he argues. "Before this, a life sentence really meant ten years, with time off for good behavior." The commissioners, who are to be appointed...
...journalists learned that the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics had just published a learned article on the origins of the universe that was ostensibly written by the Nobel laureate. Both actions were evidently designed to palliate Western concern over the fate of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner, 61, who was sentenced last month to five years of internal exile on charges of spreading anti-Soviet slander. Dissident forces reported that Bonner was preparing an appeal...
...postulate the existence of more than one time dimension in the physical universe. Friends of Sakharov believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another of the decision to publish Sakharov's article: "It's designed to show the world...
...other fronts, Harvard professors busily stirred up controversy. Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz began a one-man campaign to get the University to award honorary degrees to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, his wife Yelena Bonner, and other political prisoners and dissidents...