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...trip marked a victory for the Sakharovs. Ever since Bonner had been forced to join her husband in exile in the city of Gorky (pop. 1.4 million) in May 1984, he had waged a campaign of letter writing and hunger strikes to secure an exit visa for Bonner, who suffers from glaucoma and heart trouble, so that she might receive medical treatment in the West. Before she left for Italy, where she consulted her ophthalmologist, then met briefly with Premier Bettino Craxi and Pope John Paul II prior to leaving for heart treatment in the U.S., Bonner explained that...
...questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the 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...
Exiled to Gorky since 1984, Bonner was recently granted an exit visa to travel to Siena, Italy, for an eye operation. Following her stay in Siena, she will come to Boston for treatment of a heart condition, Yankelevich said yesterday...
...pending exit visa is probably a move "to prepare public opinion in favor of the Soviet Union before the summit [conference between Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva this November]," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes...