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WESTWOOD, Mass.--Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissidence, died yesterday, his relatives reported...
...Sakharov, a human rights leader who later was elected to the Soviet Parliament formed under President Mikhail Gorbachev and became one of its leading voices, died in Moscow, relatives said...
Liza Semyonov, 34, the daughter-in-law of Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, said Bonner called about 6 p.m. yesterday to notify the family of Sakharov's death...
Attempts to reach Sakharov's home in Moscow by telephone were unsuccessful. Sakharov had suffered from angina, but during a visit to the United States in December 1988, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital determined he did not need heart surgery or a pacemaker after cardiovascular tests...
Gorbachev singled out an unscientific poll rating the popularity of leading Supreme Soviet Deputies that had appeared two weeks ago in Argumenty i Fakty. The four top scorers, based on 15,000 pieces of reader mail, were physicist Andrei Sakharov, economist Gavril Popov, Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev (no kin to Victor) -- every one a member of the Interregional Group A&F, which was founded by Starkov in 1978. It has grown to the astonishing circulation of 26 million, specializes in service features and has published other reader polls. It has thrived on controversy in the past, publishing glasnost-enlightened...