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Demonstrators will march along the mall and pause in front of the Lincoln Memorial to hear several Soviet and American activists speak. including popular refusniks Ida Nudel. Natan Sharansky and Vladimir Slepak. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel and Vice President George Bush will also appear...
...Vladimir Slepak gained the nickname "father of the refuseniks" as one of the earliest and most dogged defenders of Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to leave the country. Since 1970, except for five years of forced exile in Siberia, the television engineer served in Moscow as a key source -- sometimes the only source -- of information and advocacy on behalf of fellow Jews who wanted to emigrate. Last week, 17 years after Slepak and his wife Maria first applied for an exit visa, the two celebrated his 60th birthday in Jerusalem after a joyous arrival ceremony attended...
...growing number of other refuseniks. Moscow has allowed 5,423 Soviet Jews to emigrate so far this year, nearly six times the 914 who were permitted to leave in 1986 (but still a far cry from the 51,300 let out in 1979). Among the departees are Ida Nudel, Slepak's counterpart as "mother of the refuseniks," and several other prominent Jewish emigration activists. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has told U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that at least 12,000 Soviet Jews will be given exit visas...
...Soviet People's Court convicted Nudel and Vladimir Slepak last June of one count each of "malicious hooliganism" for hanging posters demanding permission to emigrate to Israel in the windows of their Moscow apartments. Nudel is known as the "guardian angel" of Soviet Jewish dissidents for her help to prisoners in Soviet labor camps, Artz said...
...Jewish dissidents whose crime is to apply for an exit visa are sometimes caught in a Catch-22. Fired from their jobs, these "refuseniks" become liable to parasitism laws if they refuse to accept menial work. "Malicious hooliganism" laws round up other dissidents. In one hooliganism case, Refusenik Vladimir Slepak was convicted after hanging outside his apartment a banner demanding the right to leave the country...