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WORLD, Page 38World NotesSOVIET UNIONDissident Diplomacy
Seems only yesterday that he was a pariah in his homeland,
condemned to internal exile. But since the fateful phone call came
from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev two years ago informing Andrei
Sakharov that he could return to Moscow, the Nobel laureate and
human-rights activist has assumed an increasingly public role in
Soviet life. Two weeks ago, Sakharov, 67, led a fact-finding
mission to the strife-torn republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan --
reportedly with Gorbachev's personal blessing.
Sakharov's delegation visited Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert,
the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in
Azerbaijan that has been at the heart of the ethnic clashes that
have been rocking the Soviet Union since February. He also stopped
in Spitak, the town virtually destroyed in the Dec. 7 earthquake
that the Kremlin now estimates took 25,000 lives.