Word: motheral
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...same." Andrei said that Sokolov had come to see him that morning and had said that Gorbachev had given him orders to handle the situation with Sakharov. So I sat down at my typewriter, and wrote: "In case I am allowed to travel abroad to see my mother, children and grandchildren, and also for treatment, I will not hold press conferences or give interviews. Elena Bonner. Sept. 5, 1985." Andrei's statement said, ". . . If my wife is allowed to travel abroad for treatment and to see her relatives, I plan to concentrate on scientific work and on my private life...
Elena Bonner flew to the U.S., by way of Italy, on Dec. 7, 1985. After visiting briefly with her mother, children and grandchildren in Newton, she underwent a sextuple coronary-bypass operation in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. In her five months in the U.S., Bonner traveled to Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Miami, visiting old friends and appearing at many ceremonies in Sakharov's honor. She also paid a discreet visit to the White House, where National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her. In what little spare time she had, she wrote this book. She liked America...
...that berated and maligned Sakharov. Soon, the magazine Smena published an article by Yakovlev expanding on what he had written in his CIA book. The flood of letters changed direction, and many became openly anti- Semitic (since Sakharov is not Jewish, the letters were obviously aimed at Bonner, whose mother is Jewish). Threats increased, particularly against me. We were threatened at the market in Gorky, on our balcony, out in the street. On Sept. 4, when I was leaving Gorky on the 6:20 a.m. train, two middle-aged women and a man were in the compartment with...
...summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event by using a form associated with indirection and repose...
...change a tire for three rubles. One time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with him, is he sick or something that he can't change a tire...