Word: daughter-in-law
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...confined to the drab, provincial city of Gorky, suffers from a heart condition for which the Soviet government has refused the treatment he requests, and had to stage a hunger strike 18 months ago to win permission for his daughter-in-law to leave the U.S.S.R. and join her husband in the U.S. But despite his internal exile and straitened circumstances, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, 62, wrote and somehow conveyed to American Physicist Sidney Drell a long open letter detailing his views on control of the nuclear weapons he once helped the Kremlin to develop...
...parking lot outside Begin's office, kept wondering: Was the length of the meeting auspicious? Or was it an ominous sign? At one point, Yuval Ne'eman, the Science and Development Minister, abruptly walked out, but it turned out that he had just learned that his daughter-in-law had died. Finally, after seven hours, a decision was announced: the Israeli Cabinet had voted, 17 to 2, to accept the accord worked out by Shultz on the withdrawal of 30,000 Israeli troops from Lebanon...
...favorite theme of Indian movies: domineering mother vs. misunderstood daughter-in-law. Now the country is going to be treated to a live, political version of the drama as Maneka Gandhi, 26, takes on her illustrious mother-in-law, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Last week the sharp-tongued Maneka, who is the widow of Indira's youngest son and one time heir apparent, Sanjay, announced that she will launch her own political party. What is more, she will oppose Rajiv, Indira's eldest son and current heir apparent, in the next elections for the north Indian parliamentary seat...
Sakharov even managed to strike a blow against his persecutors from exile, when in 1981 he and his wife went on a hunger strike to protest the refusal of the Soviet government to allow their daughter-in-law to emigrate. The fast continued from November 22 until December 8, when Sakharov was informed that his son's wife would be allowed to leave Russia...
...film makers concede that some facts have been altered for dramatic effect: certain events telescoped, details added or subtracted. In the movie, the father and daughter-in-law go through a morgue looking for Charles' body, finding instead the remains of a friend, American student Frank Teruggi. In fact, that discovery was made by someone else...