The World : Sakharov Said to Vanish

Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov and his wife appear to have vanished from their home in Gorky, exiled Soviet novelist Lev Kopelev said in Cologne, West Germany. Kopelev said that friends in the Soviet Union reported that guards at the residence have been withdrawn and that no lights have been seen in the apartment in two weeks. Sakharov, 64, was exiled to Gorky in 1981 after speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Kopelev also said that Ruth Bonner, mother of Sakharov’s wife, who lives in Boston, last month for the first time in many years failed to receive birthday greetings from her daughter.