NAMES & FACES
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Date: Friday, July 11, 1980
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Section: RUN OF PAPER
Andrei Sakharov, the exiled Nobel Prize winner who helped develop the
Soviet hydrogen bomb, thinks he has less chance than ever of regaining his
freedom after the Olympics. Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, voiced fears
yesterday for her husband's safety as long as he is confined to the industrial
city of Gorky, 250 miles east of Moscow. Speaking to Western reporters in
Moscow, Bonner, who prefers to use her maiden name, reported the latest
official harassment of Sakharov - a break-in of his Gorky apartment by
plainclothes KGB agents. Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for
his unflagging human rights activities was seized Jan. 20 by police who
deported him to Gorky. He has been refused permission to leave or to contact
foreigners.
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