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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sakharovs remain penned up, they by no means remain silent. This week Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is publishing, and TIME is excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
Elena Bonner flew to the U.S., by way of Italy, on Dec. 7, 1985. After visiting briefly with her mother, children and grandchildren in Newton, she underwent a sextuple coronary-bypass operation in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. In her five months in the U.S., Bonner traveled to Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Miami, visiting old friends and appearing at many ceremonies in Sakharov's honor. She also paid a discreet visit to the White House, where National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her. In what little spare time she had, she wrote this book. She liked America...
...lived quietly until May 2, 1984, though I dreaded the fact that Andrei would soon begin a hunger strike to persuade the authorities to allow me to visit the West for medical treatment. I had to go back to Moscow, and for some reason I carried in my purse the letters and appeals that Andrei had written, along with copies of my letters to the children revealing the hunger strike, and to Andrei. Why was I carrying them around? I don't know to this day what I was thinking of. As I was being led to board the airplane...
...Iceland had a glorious dawn, and has lain in twilight ever since," wrote British Historian James Bryce after an 1872 visit to the island. "It is hardly possible that she should again be called on to play a part in history." This week, however, Iceland's very remoteness has thrust it onto center stage. President Reagan reportedly chose Reykjavik over London for this meeting to minimize distractions. The driving force behind this superpower outing, according to both Soviet and U.S. officials, is "less is best." In attracting the two leaders, Iceland's spartan isolation may have been its major selling...
Many of the students said that they weresurprised that Bok so readily accepted aninvitation to visit a freshman dorm. "I wassurprised most by the fact that he answered toughquestions as candidly as he did," said Timothy F.Sipples '90, a Canaday resident...