Sakharov to fast
The dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, has announced in a telegram to President Leonid Brezhnev that he will start a hunger strike on November 22, the day the Soviet leader leaves for a visit to West Germany. Mr Sakharov’s wife, Yelena Bonner, will also start a hunger strike the same day. The physicist, exiled to Gorki last year, will stage the protest to obtain an exit visa for his daughter-in-law, Elisabeth Aleseyeva, who wishes to join her husband in the Unites. States. — Moscow.
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Press, 18 November 1981, Page 7
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