Efrem. first lost his job as a physicist after he accompanied his stepfatherinlaw to the trial of biologist Sergei Kovalev in Vilnius in December 1975. after Andrei Sakharov exchanged letters with President Carter in January of 1977. the Sakharovs received threats against the life of their grandson. In autumn of 1977 Aleksei Semenovich Bonner was expelled from his final year in the mathematics faculty of a Moscow pedogogical institute. The end result of these repressive actions was that Effrem and Tatiana Yankelevichwith their two infant childrenemigrated in June of 1977 from the U.S.S.R.. while Aleksei Bonner emigrated to the West on March 1. 1978. One purpose of these actions has been to isolate Sakharov from his family and friends. making unavailable to him sources of emotional comfort. Yet Andrei Sakharov has persisted in asserting that it is his moral dutyr to stay in the U.S.S.R. and continue to act as the honored advocate of dissent and liberalization in his native country.
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