What makes his visit a cry in the night is the fact that he represents millions of Jews in the Soviet Union whose plight he will recount from personal experience. I met Michael Zand for the first time during my visit to Israel last month. I was impressed enough with him and his story to offer my help in getting his visa to visit the United States and to renew my efforts to bring about some concrete gesture of support for those Jews still living in Russia who have followed Professor Zand in spirit but cannot physically share his journey. An expert in Arabic and Persian culture. he was a scholar at the Institute of Peoples of Asia in Moscow where his father had been a professor of philosophy. Last March. he was one of 39 Jews who went to the office of the public prosecutor to protest the Leningrad trials of the alleged plane hijacking whose unfair arrest and prosecution aroused worldwide sentiment.