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Rubenstein also said that Sakharov’s step-daughter Tatiana Yankelevich, who is also assistant director of the Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center at Brandeis, would be working on the related programming and symposiums...
...Yankelevich did not return repeated phone calls...
...Tatyana Yankelevich, the daughter of Sakharov's wife, Elena, "thanked" the audience "for realizing what he meant to this world." Sakharov once told Yankelevich, "The only martyr one can have is freedom," she said this week...
...week after the Moscow meeting, TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, took a call from Sakharov's son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich, now a resident of Newton, Mass. Yankelevich told Talbott that his father-in-law had sent a copy of the private speeches. Sakharov, said Yankelevich, had requested that a way be found to publish their text. Talbott and State Department Correspondent David Aikman, both of whom read Russian, studied the material and recommended that TIME print the dissident's views. This week the magazine takes an exclusive look at those statements, Sakharov's most detailed examination...
Working with Yankelevich, Talbott and Aikman edited the speeches into a single letter from the physicist. Aikman, who was Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1977 to 1978, wrote an introduction to the text, focusing on its views of the arms race and on Gorbachev's push for reforms. "The struggle in the Soviet Union between the momentum for change and the inertia of privilege," says Aikman, "is one of the great political and intellectual dramas...