--Pvt. Allen Pepke, who as a civilian hiked more than 500 miles to disprove Army doctors who twice rejected him for bad feet, was graduated from basic training with a perfect test score. Pepke, 19, whose family traveled from New Haven., Mich., for the ceremony, was graduated after two months of basic combat training at Ft. Knox, Ky. He won a rifle sharpshooter badge and scored 100% on a final course exam. He leaves for Ft. Rucker, Ala., today for advanced training in helicopter maintenance. Pepke was twice rejected by Army doctors who said his feet couldn't tolerate long marches in combat boots because of a skin ailment. He set out last Oct. 13 on a 600-mile walk to the White House to appeal to President Reagan. Thirteen days later, and about 90 miles short of the White House, the Army relented, based on the results of another physical.
--Dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov fell on the ice and has been confined for much of the winter to his apartment in Gorky, where he lives in internal exile, Soviet sources said. Sakharov, 64, reportedly injured several ribs in the fall and, as a result, has suffered from coughing spells. The sources said that he had to stay alone in his apartment for most of January and February. He has improved, the sources said, and recently was allowed a visit by his daughter and granddaughter, who live in Moscow. It was described as the first such visit in two years. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, is in Massachusetts recovering from heart surgery.
