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...permitted to leave the U.S.S.R. last month for treatment of heart and eye trouble, gathered around the tree with her mother Ruf, son Alexei, daughter Tatiana, their spouses and her three grandchildren. At the celebration in Newton, Mass., where the families live, there were special gifts brought from the homeland, including fine black caviar and vodka. But the day was tempered with sadness. In two months, Bonner must return to Gorky, where Sakharov remains in "internal exile." While her agreement with Soviet authorities prevents her from talking to the press, Son-in-Law Efrem explained, "She counts every day here...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
DIED. Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak poet and winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose lyric verse celebrating everyday life and the love of women was warmly admired in his homeland but little known elsewhere; in Prague...
COVER: Virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz returns in triumph to his homeland 56 "I had to go back to Russia before I died," explains the 81-year-old pianist, and in a spellbinding performance shown on TV in the West, he infuses his playing with a fire and precision not heard in years. It is a journey that stirs memories even as it writes a coda to his extraordinary life. The visit helps begin a dazzling set of cultural exchanges. See MUSIC...
Vladimir Horowitz never forgot. Last week, more than 60 years after that poignant admonition, he returned to the Soviet Union, to the rodina of myth and memory, the homeland of the soul that dwells in the hearts of all Russians, no matter where they live. "I have never forgotten my Russia. I remember the smells when the snow melts and the spring arrives," says Horowitz, 81. "I had to go back to Russia before I died. It brings an Aristotelian unity to my life, like a coda in music. It is the right time to go back...