The World - News from Dec. 2, 1985
Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, is due to leave the Soviet Union today on a flight to Rome for treatment of an eye ailment before going on to the United States for heart bypass surgery. Bonner’s long-sought permission to travel to the West for medical treatment was granted last month. She and Sakharov, who is remaining in the Soviet Union, have been in internal exile in Gorky.
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