Word: kishinev
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...Kishinev refuseniks who have been applying to rejoin immediate family members in Israel for the past three to six years, have been denied exit visas on the grounds that they possess state military secrets. David Vodovoz, one of the six refuseniks, worked as a construction painter during his military service and denies possessing any such secrets...
Morris Kranc, a Cambridge resident who returned from the Soviet Union a week ago after a 10-day visit with refuseniks in Moscow, Kiev and Kishinev, reported that Vladimir Tsukerman, one of the six, had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment until after the Madrid Conference, because he refused to obey the KGB's orders that he call off his hunger strike...
...proposal and willing to have these relations take any form the Russians suggest." Israel has been sending out other signals to indicate its receptiveness. The conviction of Soviet Jews in Leningrad and Riga on skyjacking charges brought vigorous protests from Israel; the trial of nine other Jews at Kishinev last week on similar charges was met with official silence. "We've been castrated and we do not know why," said one Israeli official who had been orchestrating the anti-Russian propaganda protests...
...skyjackers were picked up at Leningrad's Smolny airport. If other Soviet citizens had similarly supported another country, very probably the same would have happened. An unknown number were released after months in prison. But five are scheduled to be tried soon in Riga, another nine in Kishinev, and one in Odessa. The trials, however, are apparently not having the effect that the Kremlin intended. After the sentences were announced last week, a dozen or so Jews in Leningrad and several other cities marched around the main streets in protest...
...Born in 1905 in Kishinev in the Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...