MOSCOW Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who symbolizedthe victims of human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, has beenreleased from a seven-year internal exile in the closed city of Gorkyand will be allowed to return to Moscow with his wife, the Kremlinannounced yesterday.
The surprise announcement about Sakharov, 65, and his wife,Yelena Bonner, 63, was made by Vladimir F. Petrovsky, first deputyforeign minister, at a press conference on nuclear testing plans.
Petrovsky said members of the Supreme Soviet, the nation'sparliament, decided to allow Sakharov and Bonner to return to thecapital because they had been away long enough.
"In particular, …
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