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...that led to her trial and conviction. Last February the physicist appealed to Soviet authorities to allow Bonner to go abroad for treatment of her heart disease, arguing that she was being deprived of adequate care in the Soviet Union. His request denied, Sakharov on May 2 began a hunger strike that made news around the world. Soviet officials then accused Bonner of conspiring with U.S. diplomats to conduct an anti-Soviet campaign in the West. Meanwhile, Western statesmen, including President Reagan, persistently expressed concern about Sakharov's condition. Rumors that Sakharov was dangerously ill, and even dead, kept...
...than a year old. In one brief sequence, however, a strikingly thin and exhausted-looking Sakharov is seen eating some food at a table on which a July 16 copy of Newsweek has been conspicuously placed. The videotape proved one thing: Sakharov had interrupted, though perhaps not ended, his hunger strike as early as six weeks ago. Still, worldwide concern for him and his wife is scarcely likely to subside. Said Sakharov last May in an appeal to world opinion: "Her death would be my death...
...consequences of a failure to bring the world's population growth under control are frightening. They could include widespread hunger and joblessness, accompanied by environmental devastation and cancerous urban growth. Politically, the outcome could be heightened global instability, violence and authoritarianism...
They stumble along on dusty dirt paths. Emaciated, frail and ravaged by hunger, they are on a desperate journey for food. Some are blind, a result of vitamin A deficiency, or sick with pellagra, diarrhea, cholera and various starvation-related diseases. Diplomats and relief officials estimate that as many as 150,000 have walked through the desolate bush of northern Mozambique into eastern Zimbabwe in recent months. For every one who has made it to the border, another is believed to have died along...
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to attract world attention, the Soviet press has been full of reports on the Jailed American Indian activist, who went on a fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...