The World - News from Feb. 17, 1986
Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, now in internal exile in the city of Gorky, could be freed in May or June, a West German magazine reported. Der Spiegel said the information came from unnamed experts close to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In another development, a report from Moscow said the Soviets have approved a three-month extension of the visa of Sakharov’s wife, Yelena Bonner, who is undergoing medical treatment in the United States.
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