This is Mr. Rubins situation: He was a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In February. 1972. he applied to emigrate to Israel. where his sister lives. He promptly was ordered to resign from the institute. Publication of his works was halted. Reviews of his already published writings were cancelled. He has become a nonperson. and inanages to stay alive only by selling his library. book by book. to buy food. His Israel visa has not been granted. Neither was one for the United States after he was invited to teach at Columbia University last spring. He has been invited to deliver a paper on ancient Chinese thought at an International Congress of Orientalists in Paris next month. No visa has been granted for this. either. What is the reason for this inhuman treatment? Soviet authorities have sometimes barred the exodus of scientists on the ground that they have had access to secret materials and that their emigration might be dangerous to state security. But Mr. Rubins field of knowledge is. as he has pointed out. the Chinese classics. "no more secret than the Bible or the tragedies of Shakespeare." If Mr. Brezhnev wants us to believe what he says about the absence of a Jewish problem at home. he had better see that Mr. Rubin is allowed to attend the Paris meeting and is granted a visa to Israel. [From the Los Angeles Times. June 21. 1973] THE NixozBREZHNEV SUMMIT: DtTENTE
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