Word: refuseniks
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...minorities in the Soviet Union (which far outnumber ethnic Russians when added up), Jews are excluded from all positions of significance in the party, the government, the military, and industry. One of the last havens for Soviet Jews--academia--is being steadily eroded by the ostracism of the mushrooming refusenik population...
Each month Hillel holds a letter writing meeting to petition the Soviets on behalf of one refusenik family, the Kahassins. But this rally will be unique because it will place the issue before the entire campus, said staff supervisor Karen Boitman...
...Hillel sponsored demonstration-featured speeches by Dershowitz and Soviet emigre Mira Khmelnitskaya and centered on the plight of a hospitalized refusenik Nadezha Eradkova...
...student lobbyists asked senators and congressmen to "adopt" a refusenik, the name given Jews denied permission to leave the Soviet Union, said Judith Stern '84, an organizer of the Harvard group...
...Mitchell has had astonishing success in luring Harvard's finest. Only a handful of professors--most notably Otto Eckstein and Martin Feldstein--have refused to come to dinner. President Bok is another refusenik, but there have been college presidents in attendance. President Horner was honored at an earlier dinner, and B.U. president John R. Silber accepted an invitation to attend last week. (A last-minute conflict forced him to send his deputy instead.) Of Bok Mitchell says, "We're hoping someday he'll accept our invitation. If the president of B.U. will come to a Harvard alumni group, there...