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...Soviet Union last week informed the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) it will grant a visa to Melvyn Nathanson, honorary research fellow in Mathematics, for the current academic year, reversing an August decision to deny him entry into the USSR on the NAS Soviet-American exchange program, a spokesman for NAS said yesterday...
...Nathanson, who is on leave from Southern Illinois University, where he is a professor of mathematics, said yesterday the Soviet Union presumably denied him the visa because during a 1972 stay in Moscow, Nathanson befriended a Soviet mathematician who subsequently applied to emigrate...
...Nathanson said yesterday he will not accept the visa, granted for November 20, because he enjoys being at Harvard and has just signed a lease on a Cambridge apartment. However, he said he plans to ask NAS to sponsor him in a delayed trip to the Soviet Union in late spring...
...decision to grant Nathanson a visa came after repeated protests by the NAS that the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Foreign Ministry were damaging the 18-year-old exchange program by denying the visa, Nathanson said...
...stunned--it had never happened before that a person accepted into the program was denied a visa," Nathanson said...