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...intensely private behavior of most Soviet leaders, was captured at a Moscow polling station during last month's national elections. There, under the glare of television lights, stood Mikhail Gorbachev. Instead of keeping his family away from the spotlight, he had brought along his wife Raisa, 52, their daughter Irina and granddaughter Oksana. After sealing his ballot, Gorbachev carefully placed it in the box. When photographers asked him to repeat the scene, he declined, jocularly noting he was allowed to vote only once...
...that Sakharov was taken from his Gorky apartment nearly two weeks ago and has not been heard from since. The information apparently was contained in a telegram from Bonner to Sakharov's three children in Moscow. The last definite word about the couple came two weeks ago from Irina Kristi, a family friend. After a visit to Gorky, she reported that Bonner was being prevented from leaving the city. TASS, the Soviet news agency, accused the U.S. embassy of masterminding Sakharov's hunger strike and plotting to give Bonner political asylum. A senior U.S. official confirmed last week...
...embassy acquiesced with alacrity, and late last month a Lincoln Continental bearing West Virginia plates (the embassy had requested the license number beforehand, along with the route to the college) arrived in the capital to collect Oleg and Ksana Benyukh and Oleg and Irina Shibko. The driver was Calvin Carstensen, director of community education at the college, and when he met his passengers they handed him a map with a route sketched out that flummoxed him. To go their way would inflate the normal driving time-4½ hours-by half again or more...
...they would, say, if a military installation were involved. But they make sense enough to the Kremlin and to the State Department. Thus the way back was taken out of the bewildered driver's hands, and they went the long way round. The passengers did not complain, although Irina Shibko got carsick...
...next question was concerned with what the Soviet people do for recreation, for vacations. Irina Shibko, assistant managing editor of Soviet Life, a propaganda magazine put out by the embassy ("It is certainly propaganda," she had said earlier, "but what is not in this world of ours?"), said the Soviets do essentially what the Americans do on holidays...