The World - News from May 23, 1985

The Soviet Union has mailed back to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations about 20,000 letters from private citizens protesting the continued internal exile of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov and his wife, a U.S. spokeswoman said. The letters, in seven mailbags, were delivered to the Soviets on May 15. The Kremlin maintains that the case is a domestic matter. A U.S. statement, issued at the United Nations, called on the Soviets to provide information on the health of the Sakharovs and to end their isolation.