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Support for that notion seemed to come from photos of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner that appeared in the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung on the eve of Mitterrand's visit. The newspaper explained that the pictures had been provided by Victor Louis, an English-speaking Soviet journalist who is widely believed to have KGB connections. One photo purports to show Sakharov strolling through a park in Gorky, the city 250 miles east of Moscow to which he has been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Not Even an Ironic Smile | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Dershowitz and 13 other members of the Law School faculty last month asked President Bok to award honorary degrees to Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharoy and his wife. Yelena Bonner, both of whom are being held in internal exile in the Soviet Union Dershowitz also requested that Bok offer the Sakharovs medical treatment in Cambridge...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Dershowitz Confronts Bok On Absentee Honoraries | 6/29/1984 | See Source »

...Soviet dissident's whereabouts, and the state of his health, were cloaked in mystery. Two weeks ago, Bonner had sent a telegram to relatives in Moscow informing them that Sakharov had been taken from their apartment in Gorky, the industrial city to which he was exiled in 1980. French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais said that sources "at the highest level" had implied to him that Sakharov, who has a history of heart disease, was in "satisfactory" health and under regular observation at a Gorky clinic. Later the Soviet Ambassador to France told Socialist Party Leader Lionel Jospin that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Battening Down the Hatches | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...Bonner came under savage attack last week in Izvestia. The government daily accused Bonner of pushing her husband into anti-Soviet activities. The commentary described her as a "shallow, resentful and greedy person" whose primary goal was to flee to the West "even if it meant over her husband's dead body." Izvestia also repeated allegations that the U.S. embassy in Moscow had involved Sakharov's wife in a "provocative operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Battening Down the Hatches | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

TIME has learned that among the documents that Bonner gave U.S. officials during a meeting in Moscow in April was a third message from Sakharov requesting temporary refuge for his wife in the embassy. The dissident physicist apparently feared that the KGB would take actions against Bonner if he went on a hunger strike. He also wanted her to have access to American medical care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Battening Down the Hatches | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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