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Alexander Feldman from Kiev was sentenced to 3½ years in a Soviet labor camp. The charge: knocking a cake out of a woman's hands and addressing her obscenely. Pinkhas Pinkhasov, a carpenter from Derbent, received a term of five years. The charge: overcharging for his services. Isaac Shkolnik of Vinnitsa in the Ukraine was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp for "systematically" collecting "espionage material about the Soviet Union with a view to selling it to Israeli intelligence." In none of these cases was any witness or credible evidence produced to prove the charges...
...Pinkhasov, was suddenly given a reduced sentence - and even received permission to emigrate to Israel. Perhaps, speculates Taylor, public pressure had something to do with the Soviet government's belated act of clemency. The bare possibility justifies the lawyers' effort - and the book...
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