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...nondescript little whitewashed office at Tel Aviv University, the telephone suddenly rings. The 1,600-mile connection to Moscow has been made. At the other end of the line is Physics Professor Mark Azbel, 41, a former department head at Moscow's prestigious Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is on a hunger strike because of the Soviets' refusal to let him emigrate, but over the telephone he now begins in fluent English a lecture for his Israeli students on "An Approach to Macrophysics and Condensed Matter Physics." A tape recorder takes it all down for the fall...
...Azbel is one of six prominent Soviet scientists who lived on nothing but bottled mineral water for two weeks in mid-June. All had been fired from their official posts for trying to emigrate to Israel, and then barred from emigrating at all. Partly to keep up their spirits, the president of Tel Aviv University got Azbel and another physicist, Alexander Voronel, appointed to his own faculty; he persuaded neighboring Bar-Han University to hire a third, Moshe Gitter-man. "I hope that the administration will excuse my being unable to start my duties immediately...
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