Bonner’s Visa to Be Extended, Kin Say
Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner has received permission to extend her stay in the United States for medical treatment, her family said Saturday, after she spoke by telephone with her husband, physicist Andrei D. Sakharov.
Bonner talked with Sakharov, who is in internal exile in the Soviet city of Gorky, for half an hour, discussing her recovery from heart surgery. As before, the phone line faded when controversial topics were raised, the relatives said.
They added that the 62-year-old Bonner did not discuss the visa extension with Sakharov because she preferred to wait until she knew the exact length of her stay. The original visa was for three months and would have expired at the end of February.
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