Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend and I visited Russia and met Lyudmilla Prussakova [Oct. 30] and her husband outside the Moscow Synagogue. She was a teacher and he a director for a TV station, but both lost their jobs after applying for exit visas to Israel. What will always remain with me is the innocence of two human beings who craved to go to Israel for spiritual reasons-a desire that is in the mind and soul and transcends the political ideology of the country in which they are presently trapped. I believe that it is hard for most Americans, and indeed...
...demonstration in front of Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital Saturday resulted in 17 arrests when striking workers and their sympathizers blocked non-striking workers attempting to drive out of the hospital's parking lot exit...
...Most-favored-nation status can be granted only by Congress, and therein hangs a potentially serious threat. No fewer than 76 Senators have gone on record as opposing MFN as long as Soviet officials continue trying to halt the swelling exodus of their Jewish citizens by charging exorbitant exit fees. The Soviets have privately recognized Nixon's lack of full power over the matter, and may be willing to loosen up on some restrictions in order to ensure clearance of the final hurdle blocking their much-desired access to American technology. Indeed, on the day of the signing...
...Committee Against Exit Fees for Professionals in the Soviet Union voted at a meeting last night to present a petition to Dr. Mestislav Keldysh, the Academy president, and other noted Soviet scientists who are meeting with Harvard and MIT physics professors. The Committee has accumulated 3000 signatures from the Harvard community which they will present at the demonstration...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, himself a signer of the petition, has arranged for two Harvard students and two MIT students to directly confront Keldysh over the Soviet exit policy...