The dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which he worked."...
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