The World - News from March 24, 1986
A West German newspaper said it has obtained recent, secretly taken film of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov that shows him to be “obviously healthy.” The mass circulation daily Bild--which has obtained four other films of Sakharov in the last two years--said the 15-minute color videotape shows Sakharov speaking on the telephone with his wife, Yelena Bonner, who is currently receiving medical treatment in the United States. American relatives indicated they thought that the film was intended to counter a Sakharov letter telling of confinement and force-feeding while he was on a hunger strike.
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