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...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 the news that Alexeyeva was free to leave. Semyonov, 25, who is Bonner's son by a previous marriage, was allowed to leave the Soviet...
Sakharov explained that Liza had been denied permission to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, 25, a graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Semyonov had emigrated to the U.S. 3½ years ago, but Alexeyeva was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. When they were married by proxy last summer in Butte, Mont., Soviet authorities did not acknowledge the ceremony...
...family members are fearful that Sakharov is more serious about his current fast. Sakharov, 60, who has long suffered from heart disease and high blood pressure, developed a persistent cough on the fourth day of his food strike. He and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 59, the mother of Alexei Semyonov, are drinking only mineral water to prevent dehydration. "His will is strong-it's his body that I'm worried about," said Liza Alexeyeva in Moscow. Before leaving Moscow last week to rejoin her husband in Gorky, where he has been exiled since 1980, Bonner said that...
MARRIED BY PROXY. Alexei Semyonov, 24, graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University and stepson of exiled Soviet Dissident and Physicist Andrei Sakharov; and Liza Alexeyeva, 25, Moscow mathematician who has been barred from emigrating from the Soviet Union; he for the second time, she for the first; in Butte, Mont., because the state is one of the few to recognize proxy marriages. Semyonov, who has lived in the U.S. since 1978, spoke his vows to Alexeyeva's stand0-in, Edward Kline, editor of the Russian-language publishing house, Khronika Press...
...numbers in the U.S.S.R., but they are not always the uplifting tracts that Marx and Lenin envisioned as the people's literature. New police and spy thrillers and science fiction are snapped up by fans on publication day. The country's top mystery writer is currently Julian Semyonov, 48, whose latest, Tass Is Authorized to State ..., was published in an edition numbering 100,000 copies. It is the stirring tale of intrepid KGB agents vs. the CIA in an unnamed African country-manifestly Angola...