The World - News from March 24, 1985
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Exiled Soviet scientist Andrei D. Sakharov has threatened to resign from the Soviet Academy of Sciences unless his wife, Yelena Bonner, is allowed to travel abroad for treatment of a heart ailment, a London-based human-rights group reported. Keston College, citing a reliable source in the Soviet Union, said Sakharov made the threat in a letter to the academy from his exile in Gorky, where he was sent in 1980 after speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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