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...White House to announce his new arms initiative. For their part, the Soviets showed signs of new flexibility about their own proposals, suggested they might halt work on a controversial radar facility and offered an exit visa to Yelena Bonner, the ailing wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov...
Perhaps in response to Reagan's recent admonishments on human-rights abuses, Moscow made its offer to allow Bonner, 62, an exit visa to seek medical treatment in the West. She and her husband Sakharov, a distinguished physicist, are kept in "internal exile" in Gorky, an industrial city 250 miles from Moscow. In a telegram received by a friend on Friday, Bonner indicated that she would probably not leave until the end of the month-- after the summit is over...
Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, confirmed yesterday that she has been granted permission to see medical treatment in the United States, and is expected to receive that treatment from Harvard doctors...
Bonner and her second husband Sakharov, the winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday spoke by telephone to her children in Newton, confirming reports that she had been given permission to come to the United States for treatment of a heart condition. Yesterday marked the first time in six years that the Newton family had spoken to Sakharov, their stepfather...
Bonner, a pediatrician who married Sakharov in 1971, has been allowed to go abroad three times for eye problems, most recently in 1979. Although Soviet officials last month asked Bonner to leave the country immediately, she postponed the trip until her husband recovered from his fast. At the end of November, Bonner plans to go to Italy to consult an opthalmologist, Yankelevich said...