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Page ^A'he BattalionAVednesday, January 15, 1986 Wife's surgery pleases Sakharov Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. —* Soviet dis sident Andrei Sakharov talked with his relatives here Tuesday for the first time in more than two weeks and said he was pleased that his wife, Yelena Bon ner, had successfully undergone a heart bypass operation in Bos ton. “I am very glad the operation took place because earlier I was upset the doctors w’ere afraid to go ahead with it,” Sakharov said in telephone call from the Soviet city of Gorky, according to a translation by Bonner’s daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. “I’m glad I didn’t know in ad vance because I would go crazy with worry,” he said during the 15-minute conversation with his stepdaughter at her suburban Boston home. During a four-hour operation Monday morning, surgeons by passed six of Bonner’s arteries — three main arteries and three branches, according to Massachu setts General Hospital spokesman Martin Bander. Her condition was upgraded Tuesday from sat isfactory to good. Yankelevich asked Sakharov how his own health was, and he replied he had had some dental work done but it was nothing compared to the procedure per formed on his wife. Yankelevich said the line was deliberatelyjammed by Soviet au thorities. She said that when she repeated the question several more times, Sakharov could not hear her because the volume of her voice appeared to have been turned down. Yankelevich told Sakharov that Bonner, 62, was scheduled to call him Friday morning from her hospital bed. The call was the first the family had with Sakharov since Dec. 28. The family said that call also was interrupted by static after several minutes; Yankelevich said she had vis ited her mother Tuesday morn ing but that Bonner still was un able to talk because of sedation. heavy Bonner, herself a physician, was expected to be hospitalized eight to 10 days. U.S. claims right to protect its freighters in Persian Gulf Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States asserted Tuesday the right to have Navy warships protect Ameri can freighters against “forcible ac tions” in the Persian Gulf but re fused to say whether interceptions by Iran would be resisted. The ambiguous U.S. stance was taken at the State Department where spokesman Charles Redman cau tioned Iran that boarding ships to look for weapons for Iraq was “a po tentially dangerous game.” Six armed Iranian sailors stopped the President Taylor on Sunday, boarded it for 1 hour and 45 min utes, found no war supplies and per mitted the ship to go on to Fajaira in the United Arab Emirates to pick up cargo for India. The administration on Monday said Iran, which is at war with Iraq, appeared to be acting within its rights. Twelve American passengers on the President Taylor said they feared the Iranian matines would kidnap them. “We heard about hostages so of ten that we were scared of becoming captives when the gun-toting Irani ans boarded the ship,” Frances Kirner, of Belmont, Calif., told The Associated Press. Her husband, who identified him self as a former U.S. Marine major, said that “what happened was very stupid, very frightening. The inter ception was pointless, because the ship was carrying nothing but food to most of the countries that it vis ited. There were no arms aboard." The captain, Robert Reimann, of Middletown, R.I., described the in terception as "an act of piracy.” Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Said Ra- jie-Khorassani, said Sunday Iran stopped the ship as a "precaution" to search for weapons for Iraq. Redman stressed, however, that American warships have the right to protect U.S. registered ships "from any forcible actions that exceeded the scope of a belligerent’s right un der international law.” Falwell trying to help counter spiritual blow Associated Press BANGOR, Maine — The Rev. Jerry Falwell, assuming the post of interim pastor at a troubled funda mentalist church wracked by schism since its founder publically con fessed to adultery, said Tuesday he hoped to bring about “spiritual heal ing.” “We’re here for one reason,” Fal well, founder of the Moral Majority, said at a news conference. “Not po litical, I have no aspirations to run for anything. . . . I’m here (because) the church and the cause of Christ in New England have both suffered a great blow.” Falwell’s appearance at the Bangor Baptist Church was de signed to ease internal strains stem ming from the Oct. 15 announce ment by the Rev. Herman C. “Buddy” Frankland that he had committed adultery. Falwell and his aides have charac terized the visit as a “spiritual rescue mission,” and said he planned to visit the church once or twice a month “to help the congregation put the pieces back together.” The church, which also operates a fundamentalist school and a radio station, once claimed several thou sand members, but the congregation has dwindled to a few hundred since Frankland’s resignation. Clergy and financial advisers from Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University in Lynchberg, Va., were talking to dis gruntled church members and sort ing out financial problems. Falwell said Tuesday that church attendance had quadrupled from its recent dip and was about 500 on Sunday. The financial troubles are “nothing the church can’t recover from,” he said. Falwell said discord within the church had heightened when Frank land indicated he wanted to remain in the pulpit after his initial admis sion of adultery with an unidentified woman. “In my opinion, the church was committed to staying together and working out the problem,” Falwell said. “When he came back several weeks later and reinstated himself (it spelled) disaster, chaos.” Frankland has fulfilled his pledge to leave the Bangor area, Falwell said. Reagan to ask for rebel aid Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Reagan is expected to ask Con gress for open military aid to Ni caraguan rebels, in an amount ranging from $25 million to $50 million, administration and con gressional officials said Tuesday. If approved, it would be the first open military aid that the United States has given the rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandi- nista government. The insur gents — known as Contras — re ceived an estimated $80 million in covert CIA assistance from 1981 to 1984. 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