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...aplomb and good humor. "With his command of the situation," says Flamini, "it seemed clear that Shcharansky was going to remain a newsmaker." Associate Editor Patricia Blake, who has written dozens of stories on Soviet dissidents and their struggle for human rights, including cover stories on Nobel Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and Shcharansky himself, was pressed into service. Blake flew from New York to Jerusalem, where she succeeded in gaining one of the first exclusive interviews with Shcharansky. "I placed the 1978 TIME cover story on his case in front of him," says Blake. "He was absolutely fascinated. Looking...
...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...
...blaze of trumpets heralding the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town had barely died down when State President P.W. Botha unveiled an improbable proposal. Said he: "If I were to release Mr. Nelson Mandela on humanitarian grounds, could Captain Wynand du Toit, Andrei Sakharov and Anatoli Shcharansky not also be released on humanitarian grounds...
...minute speech, the proposal was dismissed by critics as a bit of charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners of conscience of his own." Other observers...
Meanwhile Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), on a tour of Moscow, yesterday praised Sakharov before a group of Soviet scientists. Kennedy, in the Soviet Union as the guest of the nation's parliament, later met with Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev...