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Most teenagers declare their independence by rebelling, at least a little, against their parents. Walter Polovchak took his stand when he was twelve and sent a rumble through the two most powerful nations on earth. His Soviet emigre parents had decided to return to the U.S.S.R. after living six months in Chicago. Walter stubbornly said he wouldn't go, and suddenly he was the littlest defector in international headlines. Washington granted him asylum. His parents, backed by the Soviet Union, went to court in the U.S., arguing that their parental rights had been violated. Various judges ruled various ways. Meanwhile...
Blatt said that his first objective as president will be to organize a petition of 10,000 signatures in support of Walter Polovchak, a 14-year-old Russian immigrant known as the littlest dissident." He added that he would like to bring William Simon, former Secretary of the Treasury, to Massachusetts for a speaking tour of several campuses some time next year...
...being forced to return to the Soviet Union. In Chicago, most observers regret the confrontation between parent and child, family and state. As Kathy Bereza, a member of Chicago's Ukrainian Baptist Church, said: "We have sympathy for both sides. It is a tragedy. If only Michael Polovchak had given himself more of a chance to find out about life here...
...Michael Polovchak, a bus driver in Sambur, a Soviet town in the western Ukraine, had wanted to join his relatives in the U.S. so much, and for so long, that he petitioned Moscow 18 times for permission to emigrate. Finally last December approval came, and Polovchak, 42, brought his wife Anna and their three children to Chicago. He worked as a factory janitor, she as a cleaner in a hospital. But neither formed close ties with the Windy City's large community of Ukrainians, many of whom were World War II refugees, and Michael soon began to complain: Chicago...
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