Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shcharansky swap does not mean that the Soviet Union is easing up on human rights. There is no current speculation that an even more celebrated dissident, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, will win his freedom any time soon. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner was given permission last fall to visit Boston for treatment of a heart condition. But Gorbachev told the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite last week that the nuclear physicist, who had helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, "is still considered in possession of state secrets and cannot leave the U.S.S.R...
...Bonner was sentenced to five years of internal exile in the remote Soviet city of Gorky, where her husband was banished...
...Bonner is recovering from heart surgery performed three weeks ago at Massachusetts General Hospital, and should be well enough to travel to New York "if she takes it very easy," Yankelevich said...
...Bonner came to her family's home in the Boston suburb in early December on a three-month medical visa...
...Bonner requested the extension last month so she could recover fully from her operation and undergo treatment for glaucoma, set for March, her son-in-law said...