Yet as I stand before you. in the comfort and security of the United States. Venjamin and Bella Livshitz are in Lithuania. denied the simple pleasure of spending the few remaining years of their lives together with their children in Israel. Venjamin and Bella Livshitz. age 75 and 70. respectively. and their two children. Alla and Louise. asked permission to leave the Soviet Union in 1971. Venjamin and Bella were denied exit visas on grounds of having had access to sensitive military information. The information was gained by Venjamin. apparently before 1948. when he retired at an early age. The war left him a semiinvalid with chronic heart disease.