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...critic who was sent to prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated way of dealing with dissidents." But in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky (who changed his name from...
...would not engage in any more anti-Soviet propaganda. Though the Kremlin claims to have told 500 Soviet Jews last month that they could emigrate, a figure that is almost certainly exaggerated, it seemed clear last week that most refuseniks were not yet enjoying the benefits of glasnost. Naum Meiman, 75, a mathematician and close friend of Sakharov's, has repeatedly been denied permission to leave the country on the grounds that he was engaged in classified work in the 1950s. After his wife's death in Washington last week, U.S. officials urged the Soviet Union, to no avail...
...changes in Soviet life have not touched everybody. The reins by which the leadership controls the society have loosened, but the gates to the world outside remain closed. We met with a group of refuseniks, whose requests to emigrate have still not been granted. Naum Meiman's wife was allowed to go to Washington last month for urgent medical treatment; he has not been able to join her. Benjamin Charny has been trying to leave for eight years. His name was one of five on a special list of cancer victims requesting emigration. There were reports that a large number...
Almost unanimously, the friends of Anatoli Shcharansky, while rejoicing at his release, agreed that it did not mean the Soviet Union had changed its attitude toward dissidents. "I am overjoyed that Tolya is a free man, after so many years of suffering," said Naum Meiman, 74, a retired mathematician in Moscow. Like Shcharansky, Meiman was an early member of the Moscow branch of the Helsinki Watch Group, whose aim was to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki human rights agreement. Adds Meiman: "But his release is not a victory for us because we are now further away from reaching...
...Dominic Meiman is Finn the Irish king. Although Finn is supposed to be a somewhat older fellow, Meiman strikes me as a little too decrepit for a warrior king...