The World - News from March 26, 1986
Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner left for a weeklong Caribbean vacation after criticizing Soviet authorities for secretly making a videotape of her banished husband, physicist Andrei D. Sakharov. It was the first time Bonner has spoken out, thereby breaking her agreement with the Soviet government not to talk publicly in exchange for a visa to receive medical treatment in the West. Bonner said she spoke out because of fears for her husband’s life. The videotape, obtained by a West German newspaper, showed Sakharov telling a doctor his nutrition was fine. He looked haggard, Bonner said.
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