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...Sakharov makes his point...
...days it seemed certain that Andrei Sakharov's war of wills with the Kremlin could end only one way: in defeat and, possibly, death by starvation. Then, four days after the dissident leader's hunger strike led to his being hospitalized, the Kremlin backed down. In a rare concession, the Soviet leadership surrendered to Sakharov's demand that his daughter-in-law Liza Alexeyeva, 26, be allowed to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, in the U.S. Sakharov, 60, and his wife Yelena Bonner, 58, who had joined him in the hunger strike, broke their fast upon hearing...
...Soviet action was evidently prompted by pressure from abroad. The Kremlin leaders had become increasingly alarmed about the Soviet image in the West as pro-Sakharov demonstrations erupted in European capitals, and world statesmen, including Pope John Paul II, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Reagan, expressed their concern. The Soviets have always held back from taking extreme measures against Sakharov because of his international celebrity as the much decorated nuclear physicist who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He later went on to gain greater fame as the champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and the winner...
...that passed word of the Kremlin's decision to Alexeyeva that she could go to the U.S., thus halting Sakharov's fast. Alexeyeva, who married Semyonov by proxy last June, had been previously denied a visa to leave for the U.S. On Saturday, Alexeyeva boarded a train to visit the Sakharovs in the industrial city of Gorky, where the couple has been living in exile for the past 23 months...
...Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...