Word: elena
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Though the 80 pages of appendixes may seem daunting reading after the lengthy narrative, but they form a valuable component of the text. The selection of Sakharov's letters, interviews, and memoranda illustrate the nature of his campaign for human rights. The open letter from Elena Bonner, his wife, to Soviet scientists calling on them to speak out in defense of her husband is an especially moving document. She writes...
...story of his love for his second wife is a moving theme in the latter half of the book. Elena Bonner's dynamic and assertive personality strengthened his existing beliefs. She played a crucial role in his dissident activities and in smuggling the book itself to the West to be published...
FOOTNOTE: *Alone Together is the title of Elena Bonner's 1986 account of her life in exile with Sakharov...
Later on, life -- and Lusia ((Elena Bonner, his second wife)) -- would teach me to pay more attention to individual victims of injustice, and a further step followed: recognition that human rights and an open society are fundamental to international confidence, security and progress...
...Elena Carroll, the regional director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, said yesterday that she could not say for certain whether the men were authorized to solicit for the charity...