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Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...
...action compelling enough to attract world attention, the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident went on a hunger strike last week. The world-renowned physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize said that he was protesting the inhuman treatment given his daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta (Liza) Alexeyeva, 26, by Soviet authorities...
Sakharov explained that Liza had been denied permission to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, 25, a graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Semyonov had emigrated to the U.S. 3½ years ago, but Alexeyeva was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. When they were married by proxy last summer in Butte, Mont., Soviet authorities did not acknowledge the ceremony...
Concluding that Liza was being punished for his own dissident activities, Sakharov declared: "To use my son and his wife for revenge and to put pressure on me is unworthy, illegal and intolerable...
...pressure, developed a persistent cough on the fourth day of his food strike. He and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 59, the mother of Alexei Semyonov, are drinking only mineral water to prevent dehydration. "His will is strong-it's his body that I'm worried about," said Liza Alexeyeva in Moscow. Before leaving Moscow last week to rejoin her husband in Gorky, where he has been exiled since 1980, Bonner said that she and Sakharov intended "to see it through. Until Liza leaves...