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...strange machinery of Soviet public relations continues to grind out communications about dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov. In West Germany the mass-circulation daily Bild last week published a claim by Moscow-based Journalist Victor Louis, a favorite KGB conduit for slipping information to the West, that Sakharov, 63, had been released from a hospital in his exile home of Gorky. The scientist, he said, has resumed his private life by joining his wife in their apartment, and "is healthy again." The day after the Louis report appeared, Western journalists learned that the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics...
...Louis report came three weeks after ABC News broadcast a videotape that Louis had made available to Western media. While cheerily purporting to demonstrate that the Sakharovs are prospering in Gorky, the heavily spliced tape contained a sequence showing an emaciated Sakharov eating some food. If the scene was genuine, it indicated that Sakharov had at least briefly interrupted a hunger strike that he began in May in an attempt to pressure Soviet authorities into allowing his wife to leave the country for treatment of a heart condition...
...Sakharov's article, "Cosmological Transitions with Alteration of the Metric Signature," is an attempt to postulate the existence of more than one time dimension in the physical universe. Friends of Sakharov believe the work is genuine and that it was submitted last March, six weeks before the physicist began his hunger strike. The piece ends with a poignant acknowledgment: "I thank my wife, Yelena Bonner, for her help." The remark intrigued Western diplomats in "Moscow. "It's a nice touch, but I don't think it means she is being rehabilitated," said one. Noted another...
...journalists will provide a more favorable picture of the U.S.S.R. than the Reagan Administration has. Says NBC Special Segment Producer Ron Bonn: "They apparently believe that access to a large American audience is worth the risk of exposure." Soviet officials nixed few requests: an interview with Dissident Andrei Sakharov, a visit to Kiev, any views of airports or shots from great heights. To ease the U.S. reporters' way, the Soviets provided sophisticated English-speaking coordinators from the state television network...