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...Sakharovs, who were expected to leave Gorky this week, the long exile of deprivation, hunger strikes, illness and ever present loneliness was apparently over. In Newton, Mass., Bonner's daughter Tatyana Yankelevich was exultant. "We are happy to hear the news," she said. "It is overwhelming...
...Sakharov and Bonner. Over the past year, Gorbachev has tried to reverse the Soviet Union's negative human-rights image by releasing two well-known activists, Anatoli Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov. Another, Anatoli Marchenko, 48, died in prison in early December, the victim of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike. His death may have induced the Kremlin to make a gesture of reconciliation and at the same time rid itself of the burden of the Sakharovs' incarceration...
...first sign of a new policy toward the famous dissidents came a year ago. Following a 30-day hunger strike by Sakharov to force Moscow to allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the beginning of her six-month visit to the West, Bonner adhered to a pledge she had been obliged to sign in order to obtain her visa: she would hold no press conferences and give no interviews while abroad. Later, however, she was outraged at seeing secretly recorded videotapes of herself...
...kitchens were set up, as they had been during the much less severe famines of the czarist era. Conquest argues that Stalin was aiming at the genocide of the Ukrainians, whose nationalist yearnings he despised and feared. The toll supports his view. Of the 7 million who died of hunger, 6 million were Ukrainians...
Others feared before her election that she would deal only with "women's issues," she added. "But what are `women's issues?'" Mankiller asked. "Everything is a woman's issue--world peace, the environment, hunger...