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When it became clear, well in advance of last week's release of Newsman Nicholas Daniloff from the Soviet Union, that some dissidents would be included in the deal, the tantalizing, inevitable question was: Would Andrei Sakharov be among them? His wife...
...question was answered on Tuesday. Not yet, not this time. Sakharov, 65, spiritual godfather of the Soviet dissident movement, who was sent into internal exile in the city of Gorky in 1980, would be a prisoner of conscience a while longer, maybe a very long while. So would his wife of the past 14 years, Elena Bonner, 63, herself sentenced to five years of exile...
...Sakharovs remain penned up, they by no means remain silent. This week Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is publishing, and TIME is excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...
...went to the market and bought various kinds of fruits. Then we drove down to the bank of the Volga to have a light lunch of fruit and buns. That day was filmed by the KGB and shown as a typical day in the life of Sakharov. The films depicting Sakharov's life that I saw in America were edited to create the impression of a normal life, a normal state of health. Actually, it is one big hoax, a horrible lie. Another time, the world could watch films about our well-being when we are no longer alive...