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...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 by 200 friends and admirers. Said Slepak: "I feel like I have been born again...
...surge mean that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev intends to pay more heed to one of the human rights that the Soviet Union has long violated? Or is it merely a temporary opening of the door, mostly to troublesome refuseniks? Says Mathematician Iosif Begun, who was recently given an exit visa after a 16-year wait: "This is a hopeful time for Soviet Jews, but sometimes I'm afraid this hope has no basis...
...U.S.S.R. is home to more than 1.5 million Jews, the largest Jewish population outside of the U.S. and Israel. The State Department estimates that 400,000 of them may want to leave the country, although only 30,000 have formally requested visa applications. Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union began in earnest in 1971. But after it peaked in 1979, Moscow drastically reduced the number of emigration permits the following year, claiming that many applicants -- even those who had worked at menial jobs -- possessed "state secrets." The cutback was a response to heated Western criticism of Moscow's December...
M.I.T.'s Tonegawa might never have received his Nobel Prize if it were not for U.S. immigration laws. After his visa expired in 1971, Tonegawa, who had recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego, was forced to leave the U.S. He ended up at Switzerland's Basel Institute for Immunology, where he managed to solve a puzzle that had baffled biologists for a century...
...cruiser from the Iranian navy and plan to stock it with cold kegs of beer. Then, when we spot a warship, we'll cruise right in front of it and drop these kegs off the stern. The sailors on the warship will then radio us their Mastercard or Visa numbers and scoop up the kegs. It's sure to be a moneymaker...