Word: visas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEWTON--The wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov has no guarantee that her temporary visa will be extended so she may undergo eye treatment, the Soviet consulate has reportedly told her family...
There is one sign of a thaw. Last month Jewish leaders were notified that Eliyahu Essas, the leader of the Jewish religion and culture movement in the Soviet Union, would be allowed to leave the country. Essas, 42, a mathematician, has been waiting for an exit visa for twelve years. Some Jewish leaders are optimistic about an airlift. Says one source close to the negotiations: "The Soviets haven't said when or how many, but they've indicated they'll do it." For Soviet Jews, this could be the first crack in what might be an opening door...
Meet the neighbors: a pair of muggers named Visa and MasterCharge, a misplaced Mormon, an abandoned rabbi, an African dictator, a welfare mother in double- digit pregnancies, a sniper, a man assembling a Chevy Nova in his living room, a 400-lb. dope dealer with an M.B.A., a family of Cambodians trying to farm their floorboards, mythic creatures known as the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat, and two ex-dancers who sell Tupperware...
...trip marked a victory for the Sakharovs. Ever since Bonner had been forced to join her husband in exile in the city of Gorky (pop. 1.4 million) in May 1984, he had waged a campaign of letter writing and hunger strikes to secure an exit visa for Bonner, who suffers from glaucoma and heart trouble, so that she might receive medical treatment in the West. Before she left for Italy, where she consulted her ophthalmologist, then met briefly with Premier Bettino Craxi and Pope John Paul II prior to leaving for heart treatment in the U.S., Bonner explained that...
Perhaps in response to Reagan's recent admonishments on human-rights abuses, Moscow made its offer to allow Bonner, 62, an exit visa to seek medical treatment in the West. She and her husband Sakharov, a distinguished physicist, are kept in "internal exile" in Gorky, an industrial city 250 miles from Moscow. In a telegram received by a friend on Friday, Bonner indicated that she would probably not leave until the end of the month-- after the summit is over...