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...Sakharov, Jason Robards provides a commanding presence but few signs of emotional life. His mournful, hound-dog face, lower lip jutting forward in stoic determination, looks ready to apply for enshrinement on Mount Rushmore. He sheds little light on the motives behind Sakharov's late-blooming activism, though the fault may lie more in Rintels' overly reverent script than in Robards' characterization. Glenda Jackson, making a rare U.S. TV performance, brings a few moments of passion to her role as Yelena. In one scene, she chillingly describes the courtroom cheers that greeted a death sentence handed...
Even before the Kremlin announced that the Soviets would not attend the Los Angeles Summer Olympics,*Soviet leaders were using every opportunity to foster a crisis atmosphere. Further evidence came in the way Moscow was handling the case of Andrei Sakharov, intellectual leader of the besieged Soviet dissident movement. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient began a hunger strike on May 2 to secure permission for his ailing wife Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for medical treatment. Turning a deaf ear to a growing chorus of international protests and inquiries, the Soviets refused to give any details on Sakharov...
...Soviet dissident's whereabouts, and the state of his health, were cloaked in mystery. Two weeks ago, Bonner had sent a telegram to relatives in Moscow informing them that Sakharov had been taken from their apartment in Gorky, the industrial city to which he was exiled in 1980. French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais said that sources "at the highest level" had implied to him that Sakharov, who has a history of heart disease, was in "satisfactory" health and under regular observation at a Gorky clinic. Later the Soviet Ambassador to France told Socialist Party Leader Lionel Jospin that...
...husband into anti-Soviet activities. The commentary described her as a "shallow, resentful and greedy person" whose primary goal was to flee to the West "even if it meant over her husband's dead body." Izvestia also repeated allegations that the U.S. embassy in Moscow had involved Sakharov's wife in a "provocative operation...
TIME has learned that among the documents that Bonner gave U.S. officials during a meeting in Moscow in April was a third message from Sakharov requesting temporary refuge for his wife in the embassy. The dissident physicist apparently feared that the KGB would take actions against Bonner if he went on a hunger strike. He also wanted her to have access to American medical care...