Word: larissa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the Chronicle's raw information reaches Chalidze's Manhattan apartment in envelopes without return addresses mailed from the U.S.S.R. Fast-breaking news sometimes gets through by long-distance telephone. Last week Litvinov succeeded in reaching Anatoly Marchenko's wife Larissa on the phone after Soviet operators had earlier cut them off in mid-conversation. "Larissa told me that Tolya [short for Anatoly] was brought before the judge in heavy handcuffs," Litvinov reports. "He looked weak and sick, almost fainted twice during the sentencing. He has been on a hunger strike for 35 days, and will...