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...every opportunity to foster a crisis atmosphere. Further evidence came in the way Moscow was handling the case of Andrei Sakharov, intellectual leader of the besieged Soviet dissident movement. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient began a hunger strike on May 2 to secure permission for his ailing wife Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for medical treatment. Turning a deaf ear to a growing chorus of international protests and inquiries, the Soviets refused to give any details on Sakharov's health and whereabouts. Said a top Washington diplomat: "They are not capable of taking any positive steps, so they...
...that the U.S. would surpass them in the arms race, said Reagan, they should come back to the negotiating table. The President pointedly avoided chastising the Kremlin for its treatment of the Sakharovs. "I just have a feeling that anything I might say publicly could be injurious to [Yelena Bonner's] chances," he noted diplomatically. Reagan also down-played the threat posed by any new Soviet submarines off the U.S. coast...
...leading dissident passed what would have been the 18th day of his hunger strike in Gorky, the industrial city to which he was exiled in 1980. Since word leaked to the outside world that Sakharov, 63, had begun a fast to secure permission for his ailing wife Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for treatment for a heart condition, the Soviet authorities have isolated the couple behind a curtain of silence and have accused the U.S. of complicity in their protest. As days passed without news, pressure began to build in the West for Moscow to provide some answers about...
Sources close to the family said on Saturday that Sakharov was taken from his Gorky apartment nearly two weeks ago and has not been heard from since. The information apparently was contained in a telegram from Bonner to Sakharov's three children in Moscow. The last definite word about the couple came two weeks ago from Irina Kristi, a family friend. After a visit to Gorky, she reported that Bonner was being prevented from leaving the city. TASS, the Soviet news agency, accused the U.S. embassy of masterminding Sakharov's hunger strike and plotting to give Bonner political...
Members of the Sakharov family living in the West speculated that Bonner had joined the fast. Aleksei Semyonov, Bonner's son from her first marriage, who lives in Newton, Mass., glumly noted, "We believe it could be a matter of days now before either one or both of them die." In Paris, Bonner's daughter, Tatyana Yankelevich, appealed to French President François Mitterrand, who plans to visit Moscow this summer, to intervene. Foreign ministers from the European Community sent a joint statement on the Sakharovs to their Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko. The U.S. State Department denounced...