Word: efrem
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...week after the Moscow meeting, TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, took a call from Sakharov's son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich, now a resident of Newton, Mass. Yankelevich told Talbott that his father-in-law had sent a copy of the private speeches. Sakharov, said Yankelevich, had requested that a way be found to publish their text. Talbott and State Department Correspondent David Aikman, both of whom read Russian, studied the material and recommended that TIME print the dissident's views. This week the magazine takes an exclusive look at those statements, Sakharov's most detailed examination...
...Contrary to what they told us before, they said the matter of extension was still under consideration," said Efrem Yankelevich, the son of Yelena Bonner...
Family members who met Bonner in Italy did not feel similarly bound. At a press conference in Rome, Alexei Semyonov, Bonner's son by her first marriage, and her son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich offered a glimpse of the painful isolation that has been endured by the Sakharovs, who were kept under constant surveillance by police. Neighbors and shopkeepers were barred from talking to them. Bonner and Sakharov, 64, were separated at least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital...
Sakhaorv told the family that he ended his hunger strike late last month when the government gave his wife permission to leave the country for three months to seek medical helps, according to Efrem Yankelevich, Bonner...
...DIED. Efrem Zimbalist, 94, Russian-born violinist of high technical polish and emotional understatement, a considerable composer of songs and chamber music and a musical administrator and teacher who for 27 years, until 1968, headed Philadelphia's Curtis Institute; in Reno. He was the father and grandfather, respectively, of TV Actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist...