European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 13 the stars and stripes sunday May 4, 1986 Yelena Bonner she s risked a lot by Michael Bezdek associated press in the Witt Yelena Bonner has been Insl almost exclusively in Hoole of Dutiful ailing Wilo of andr Isakharov. The soviet Union s  dissident. Bui in Sovei newspapers Andrj mat ii2lnos, Yelena Bonnor is portrayed As n modern Day Mata Hari whose. Seductions Al the Behest of zionists and the Cia have turned men against their wives and against their country. Her promised silence while id Newton. Mass. To gel medical treatment or heart and Eye problems keeps the picture incomplete but new documents and interviews with those who know her incite be the firs characterize Ion is inadequate and the second outrageous. She s certainly one of the heroines of like human rights movement. She s Liskow a lot said Joshua Rubenstein. Author of soviet dissidents. Her two children paint Haf As n Warrior intellectual kind but almost always serious incl pendent but Loyal tolerant Bur capable of punching a Kab adversary As she has done on at least iwo occasions. She always had compassion toward those v to were suffering no Mailer Tor what said her daughter Tatiana. If you Ivero sending on a conviction even a child she would support  Yelena Georgieva Bonner was set apart even by name. As her son in Law tells it the name Bonner of French origin while the family tree has All asian roots arose in the goos when an unknown ancestor traded papers with a fellow prisoner on the Way to Siberia. Banner was on the run within hours after her birth in 1923 in the Remote City of Merv. Her Mother led the Hospital with Newborn Yelena Olier being warned of an a 11 ack by moslem hostile to the communists. Political turmoil displaced her again in 1937. When her lather in armenian Anci a member of the party elite disappeared on his Way la work in Moscow the apparent victim of a stalinist purge. Her Mother a jew and a government health worker was arrested shortly alter that and spent the next 17 years in labor Camps and exile Bonner and her younger brother Alexel. Went to Leningrad to live with relatives. Afer High school Bonner joined the army As a nurse. Though enraged Over the Fate other parents she volunteered As a duly of the heart according to an autobiography. At the  in 1941. A shelling gave her head injuries that triggered lifelong Eye problems. Atler the War. She studied Medicine and married a fellow student Ivan Semyonova. They had two children. Tatiana in 19sq and Alexel in 1956. But Drew Apaul As she became More politically Active. They were divorced in 1365. In addition to her work As a paediatrician she wrote Tor magazines radio and medical journals. Her Circle of friends mainly Moscow intellectuals continued to grow. When the human rights movement in i to soviet Kunlun gained momentum in the  logos she was part of it helping to produce the chronicle of current. Events which reported rights violations.  added recon Lilon by gaining entry to i he closed trial of people who had tried to Hijack a plane to a dramatize Ifie plight of Soviel jews then distributing news of the trial in Public pamphlets. She got into court by posing As the aunt of one defendant whose diaries she later smuggled out of prison. Her activities brought her info Contact with Sakharov who had helped develop the soviet Hydrogen bomb and whose first wife had died of cancer. The Tough talking Bonner and. The shy physicist Philo Sypher were married in 1971, Here truly was a Case of opposites attracting wrote Kevin Klose a . Reporter and author of Russia and the russians published in 196-1. What the Sakharov shared was a concern Tor the oppressed. The Bonner i Nelly s three room apartment where the Sakharov lived in the Kitchen served As heat quarters for the dissident movement. As Ihler political activities increased so did their roubles. Bonner became a favorite target of journalist Nikolai Yakovlev who has worked of a theme of Bonner As zionist Paramour and Cia agon trying to undermine the soviet system. Bonner brought what is essentially a libel suit against Yakovlev her autobiographical sketch is included in court papers. In an especially vicious 1983 article in she Magazine Siena Yakovlev accused her of imposing her sympathies on Sakharov. Turning him against his children and his country and taking control of his finances he also contended a t Bonner had seduced a childhood Friend the poet Vsevolod Bagri sky who died in Bailie away from a wartime Bride. But in her suit Bonner Ciles a letter Bagel sky wrote to his Mother in which he says he and his wife broke of i. Their month Long marriage by Mutual consent. Yakovlev also tried to link her to the murder of Yelena Dolenko by Wotenko s husband Moisei Zlotnyk. Bonner says in her suit that she had known them both As children but and not seen hem during. Their marriage. She said she knew nothing of the murder until being routinely ques Lionet with other acquaintances. Bonner says Yakovlev s writings have Ted to thousands of irate malicious letters which we receive recommending Sakharov to repent divorce the jewess and to live by his own mind nol by Bonne Rovsky " the Campaign also Ted 10 threats against Bonner s family prompting the emigration to this Boston suburb in 1977 and 1978 of Banner s to her son and daughter and Tatiana s two children. Bonner s son Alexel Semyonova married Uza Alexeyev by proxy in june 1931 while she was still in the soviet Union. She was allowed to leave the. Country that december after Sakharov and Bonner staged a hunger strike la win her a visa the Semyonova have one daughter. In the soviet Union Bonner is now greatly restricted. She was found guilty of slander against the state in 1934 and sentenced to live Yelena Bonner in Newton Mats where she Irete ivling medical treatment. Gee a photograph of their trash filled. Street. Ironically Bonner has been under so moshing Akino House arrest Sines her arrival in Newton in Eamy december her family has Vihrov a up a protective Barrier As they help her donor the pact she made with soviet authorities nol to speak with reporters during her stay. She has spent time a riling but her family win not say what or Lor whom Only that she has turned Down two dozen Ollers from publishers. She has also visited friends and supporters of her husband in now York and California and vacationed in the Caribbean she underwent heart bypass surgery in january and in March had surgery o Clear the main Nile by of her right leg her eyes have also been examined. Bonner mus return to the soviet Union by Juno 2, but her son in Law elem Yankelevich says she might join Sakharov Lor his 65th birthday on May the future in words torn her autobiography i Hope to live out my Hie unlit the end worthy of Iho russian culture in which i be spent my Lite of the jewish and armenian nationalities and i am proud thai mine has been the difficult lot and Lappy Fate to be the wife and Friend of academic Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov " _. Soviet dissident Andre Sakharov. Years internal exile in Gorky to which her husband was banished in 19bo. Their apartment is across the Sterol from the police station. Rubens left reports the couple is so closely monitored that three truckloads of Stree cleaners once arrived outside sheif apartment building the Day after Bonner had glanced out the window and commented that westerners might like to