European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes paged Zero Gravity gymnastics a photo olympic gymnast Kathy Johnson is sus Pended in weightlessness on a flight from Houston aboard a Nasa Jet used for Zero Gravity astronaut six gymnasts participated in a study of space motion others shown Are Megan Marsden behind Krista left and Tom Beach Sakharov a Man in says Friend who visited him a photo Irina Kristi with her husband and son at Viennas Schwec Bat Vienna a a soviet peace a who claims she was the last of an Drei Sakharov friends to see arrived Friday from Moscow and told reporters that the exiled dissident physicist is ready to do anything that a Man in de Spair can Irina was accompanied by her Sergei and their 3yearold they arrived on a regular Aeroflot Kristi said her family Hopes to Settle in the United the 1975 Nobel prize Winner for his human rights has been in internal exile in Gorki since and has been joined by his Yelena Bon they Are trying to get permission for Bonner to get medical treatment in the West for a heart Kristi said letters from Bonner show an improvement in the couples but i have the impression that he is in despair and ready to do anything that a Man in despair can she spoke in russian through Cronin la a Friend of the Kristi said she visited Sakharov in Gorki a year when he was on a hunger strike in an Effort to wring concessions from author she said she was escorted Back to Moscow and put under House arrest for four along with her i was the last person to see and they wanted to get rid of she said when she was asked Why the family was allowed to Sakharov is buried alive in Gorki without any Contact to the and has been since last but Bonner is allowed to Send some letters and Tele she Kristi showed reporters a photocopied message in Bonners congratulating the family on being allowed to we Are very Happy for said the dated May we wish Good Luck to your husband and your she said Sakharov recently ended a new hunger and she discounted re mors that he has resumed on the basis of correspondence to friends from we have real grounds to believe on the 16th of Sakharov was on hunger she he was taken to the Hospital on the 21st and and i have reason to believe that he was on a hunger strike at least until the third of but i think that at the moment he is i believe that in the Middle of May he abandoned his hunger Kristi and her husband Are both math she lost her Job in 1968 be cause of forbidden pacifist activity and has been working since As a private Lubarsky said Kristi and her husband have been under surveillance by the the soviet secret since the