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...wife of exiled Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov spent her 63rd birthday surrounded by three grandchildren at Disney World in Florida, mesmerized by the fantasies conjured up in the Magic Kingdom. For the past six months, Yelena Bonner has been nurtured by her family and awed by the wonders of the U.S. She has soaked up sun in the Virgin Islands, seen Cats on Broadway and stayed up all night with her 85-year-old mother Ruth, leafing through the pages of an old family photo album. Nonetheless, says Alexei Semyonov, a son from her previous marriage, "she never really could...
...dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which...
When an actor plays a real person, the subject is not always thrilled. On the day Yelena Bonner arrived in Italy for medical treatment last December, the HBO film Sakharov was on TV, and she watched. "I liked it so much that I cried in two places," said Bonner. Last week she sought out Jason Robards, who portrayed her dissident husband, to tell him how moved she had been. Bonner was in Washington to address the National Academy of Sciences, and she went over to the National Theater, where Robards was participating in the Helen Hayes Awards. The actor kissed...
Another Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, restricted since 1980 to the closed city of Gorky, is at least as well known as Shcharansky. But the Soviets have always claimed that Sakharov, a physicist who once worked on the Soviet nuclear-bomb project, could never be released. As recently as two weeks ago, Gorbachev said flatly in an interview with the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite that Sakharov "is still considered to be in possession of state secrets and cannot leave the U.S.S.R." Whether the Soviet position is valid or not, the Kremlin seems determined to stick...
...belong to the same Jewish movement I do," he says. "At the same time, I cannot forget the prisoners with whom I spent so many hard years and who continue suffering. It's my obligation now to remind people in the West of the fate of people like Andrei Sakharov...