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Article: Soviet Emigres Eager to Welcome Their `Courageous' Countryman Sakharov
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- The Washington Post
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- November 13, 1988
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For Inna Goldfarb, a National Institutes of Health researcher who
came to this country from the Soviet Union in 1986, this is a
frustrating and wonderful week.
The frustration comes from having no idea how she's going to
wangle her way into seeing, for the first time, a man who is one of
the towering intellectual influences on her adult life: Andrei
Dmitriyevich Sakharov. The joy comes from the fact that he has come
to Washington this week.
"My dream is to see him," said Goldfarb, who withstood six years
of official Soviet harassment and runaround before she and her family
were allowed to come here. "I never thought I could touch a real
hero."
For the approximately 1,500 Soviet emigres ...