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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...
...called in," I said, raising my voice and speaking loudly, so that everyone in the bureau would hear my usual opening: "I am the wife of Academician Sakharov...
...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 and the Americans, but there was never any doubt in her mind that she would return...
...driver said, "I'm from Minsk." I began asking him questions, so persistently that he asked, "You wouldn't happen to be in the KGB, would you?" I persuaded him that I wasn't, and toward the end of our talk, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you Sakharov's wife...
...Izvestia ran a letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based on strategic parity in conventional weapons," the Izvestia letter charged that Sakharov "calls for nuclear blackmail directed against his own country." A flood of letters began, as many as 132 one day, 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...