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...week after the Moscow meeting, TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, took a call from Sakharov's son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich, now a resident of Newton, Mass. Yankelevich told Talbott that his father-in-law had sent a copy of the private speeches. Sakharov, said Yankelevich, had requested that a way be found to publish their text. Talbott and State Department Correspondent David Aikman, both of whom read Russian, studied the material and recommended that TIME print the dissident's views. This week the magazine takes an exclusive look at those statements, Sakharov's most detailed examination...
TIME has followed the Sakharov saga since 1961, when the man who helped develop the Soviet H-bomb went on record opposing atmospheric testing of a 100-megaton weapon. In February 1977 a cover story focused on his pivotal role in organizing Soviet human-rights campaigners. And last October TIME featured excerpts from Alone Together, the autobiography of Bonner. Says Talbott of Sakharov's views in this week's issue: "His arms-control advice could hardly be more timely. It comes just as the negotiations in Geneva are showing their first serious signs of progress since the debacle at Reykjavik...
Diplomats in Moscow last week were suggesting that Gorbachev's proposal should be called the Sakharov Plan because it contained ideas the dissident physicist put forth in a speech in mid-February (see following story). But arms-control hands with longer memories recognize the initiative by another name: the zero option. In 1981 the Reagan Administration presented just such a proposal for the elimination of all medium-range missiles from Europe. The move was an attempt to soothe peace activists nervous about the pending deployment of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles, which were intended to match the Soviet...
...February, barely two months after Soviet authorities unexpectedly released him from internal exile, Andrei Sakharov created a worldwide sensation by turning up at an international forum in Moscow. Sakharov, 65, a nuclear physicist often described as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a courageous defender of human rights in his homeland, spent nearly seven years under virtual house arrest with his wife Elena Bonner in the closed city of Gorky. During the February forum, Sakharov delivered three speeches eloquently expressing his concerns about human rights, U.S.-Soviet relations and the nuclear arms race. He made a slightly edited...
...speeches, Sakharov takes up the broad themes that repeatedly have brought him into conflict with the Kremlin since the early 1960s: the connection between preserving peace and protecting human rights, the need for greater openness in the Soviet Union, and the possibility of an eventual convergence of capitalist and socialist societies...