Word: refuseniks
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Soviet officials seemed determined to stop the refusenik protest before the opening last weekend of a three-day forum titled "For a Nuclear-Free World and the Survival of Mankind." A dizzying array of Western notables, ranging from John Kenneth Galbraith to Pierre Cardin, were expected to attend the session. One of the initial speakers was Sakharov, who called for a more democratic Soviet Union, but also said that there had been recent setbacks in such areas as human rights and emigration...
Outraged by the Soviet Union's treatment of a Jewish refusenik family, a group of 20 students held a letter writing session last night to pressure Soviet officials into allowing the family to emigrate to Israel...
...surveillance is often ludicrously obvious, possibly it is meant to be. Fear can be as effective as blackmail. But intimidation can cut both ways. One memorable January evening a few years ago, four American correspondents attended a farewell party for a refusenik who had at long last received permission to emigrate to Israel. When they left the celebration, the reporters were surrounded by a gang of men -- obvious KGB agents, judging by their suits, overcoats and good fur hats. The agents cursed and shoved the journalists, sending two of them sprawling into the curbside snow. As the shaken reporters picked...
...year-old Natasha who told us that she wants to be an artist. Later Sergy told us, trying to hide the tears in his eyes, that he fears for Natasha's future: "What if she fall in love? She can only marry Jewish, and among Jewish, only refusenik. But what if she fall in love with someone else? It is going to be tragic...
Olga has a piano teacher who does not know that Olga is a refusenik, and both parents fear that if the teacher finds out, she will cut off the lessons. And further visa applications could cause her status to become known to the teacher...