Word: elena
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...then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy...
...this time. Sakharov, 65, spiritual godfather of the Soviet dissident movement, who was sent into internal exile in the city of Gorky in 1980, would be a prisoner of conscience a while longer, maybe a very long while. So would his wife of the past 14 years, Elena Bonner, 63, herself sentenced to five years of exile...
...some extent by being fully aware of his faults. At one point he reminds himself: "Don't talk all the time. It is an error to suppose that other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression about the eyes and the mouth, and Elena's exquisite slimness and delicacy...
...recent months Elena has played an increasingly active role in meetings with foreign leaders. When the First Couple visited Belgrade last December, Yugoslav journalists noted that Elena figured prominently in official discussions. The Rumanian press highlighted her role in the talks...
...Elena clearly sees herself as Nicolae's successor. While the couple's son Nicu, about 35, was at one time viewed as the heir apparent, he appears to be far more interested in parties and the good life than in a political career. Without her husband's protection, however, Elena might find it hard to stay in power. "She is infinitely more hated than the President," says Tudoran. "She is much crueler, and her decisions are more dictatorial." Given the dubious regard in which she is held, Elena, if she does inherit Nicolae's mantle, may find it resting uneasily...