2 Firsts for Sakharov: New Granddaughter, U.S. Trip

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei D. Sakharov is expected to arrive in Boston Sunday for a two-week visit--his first outside the Soviet Union--to receive medical treatment, meet a granddaughter born here and promote the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity. His itinerary will include stops in New York and Washington, and perhaps San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. His wife’s son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich, who lives in Newton, Mass., said Sakharov, 67, will go to Massachusetts General Hospital for a cardiological examination and possible implantation of a heart pacemaker. A highlight of the trip, Yankelevich said, will be Sakharov’s first meeting with Alexandra Semyonova, the 4-year-old daughter of stepson Alexei Semyonov and his wife, Elizaveta Alekseyeva.

--After six weeks in Australia to visit her husband, Prince Andrew, the Duchess of York returned to London carrying a toy koala for her 12-week-old daughter, Princess Beatrice. British tabloids have criticized the former Sarah Ferguson for spending so much time away from her baby, who was born Aug. 8. Beatrice had stayed behind in Britain with a nanny. Andrew, a Royal Navy helicopter pilot, will remain with his ship, the guided missile destroyer Edinburgh, and is not expected back in Britain until Dec. 16. Meanwhile, Koo Stark, the soft-core porn actress-turned-photographer, has been awarded $535,500 by a British jury, which found that the London Sunday People newspaper libeled her in articles published in December, 1985, by saying she carried on an adulterous affair with Andrew during her marriage to Timothy Jefferies, the Green Shield trading stamp heir. Stark and the prince had a highly publicized romance in his pre-Fergie days.