The World - News from Feb. 13, 1989

Soviet human rights activist Andrei D. Sakharov, beginning a three-day visit to the Canadian capital of Ottawa with his wife, Yelena Bonner, said he has not yet decided whether to become a candidate in upcoming elections in the Soviet Union. Sakharov told a news conference he is unhappy that the new electoral system is preventing people like himself from getting their message out to the Soviet public. The 67-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize said he will announce later this month whether he will be a candidate for the new Congress of People’s Deputies, which will elect the Supreme Soviet. He has been asked by several districts to run as an at-large candidate.