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...offering us loans even without our asking," says Wu. That money will have to be repaid. Letting extra capacity sit idle is no option. If the economy cools down and demand drops, "all that excess steel could hit world markets and send prices into a death spiral," says Brian Levich, senior steel analyst at the London-based Metal Bulletin Research...
...Levich served as head of the department of electrochemistry at Moscow University until 1972, when he applied for a visa to emigrate to Israel. After applying, Soviet authorities fired him from his teaching job, and forbade him from conducting research or publishing his work. One of his two sons entered a Siberian labor camp in 1973, but has since been released...
...Levich was the highest-ranked Soviet academician ever to ask to leave," Jonathan M. Schenker, an officer of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, said yesterday. The Soviets tried to make Levich a "living example" of what would happen to citizens who applied for emigration, Schenker said...
Dudley R. Herschbach, professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry Department, said yesterday he is very glad to hear that Levich may be allowed to emigrate...
...spokesman for the Soviet Embassy in Washington said yesterday that the Soviet government had made no statement concerning the possible release of Levich or the other families. "You will have to talk to Senator Kennedy," she said...