SAKHAROV'S WIDOW BLASTS GORBACHEV

Author: (Associated Press)

Date: Thursday, January 17, 1991
Page: 38
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN

In a statement to Nobel Committee head Gidske Anderson, human rights activist Yelena Bonner said she did not want her late husband's name to be listed along with Gorbachev as a peace prize laureate. The Soviet leader won the prize last year. Sakharov was awarded it in 1975.

"I ask you to cross Andrei Sakharov's name off the ranks of Nobel prize laureates of the world," Bonner wrote in the statement, dated Jan. 13.

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