From Detente To Entente
East met West in a history-making way February 9, when Soviet physicist Roald Z. Sagdeyev, head of the Theory Division of the USSR's Space Research Institute, married Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the man who served as president of the United States during the height of the cold war. The couple, who met in 1987 at the Chautauqua Institution/Eisenhower Institute Conference on U.S.-Soviet relations, say they plan to live in Washington, D.C., during the academic year and stay in the Soviet Union in the summer.
Beginning this fall, Sagdeyev will spend his time in the U.S. doing research in theoretical physics at the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Advanced Study, according to institute director Marvin Gold- berger. Eisenhower heads the Eisenhower Group, which handles commercial ventures in the Soviet Union. Both husband and wife, who were married in Moscow, will retain their respective citizenships. And will Sagdeyev continue...
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