My exposure to firsthand accounts of Panovs tragic situation has given me a very personal incentive to offer some help to this very special man. Valery Panov is a ballet dancerone of the greatest in the world. He and his 23yearold wife were members of the Kirov Company in Leningrad when they applied for exit visas for Israel. Panov was immediately dismissed from the Kirov. harassed. and forbidden to dance anywhere. His wife Galina was demoted to the lowest echelon of the Kirov. Before Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States last June. the Panovs were assured that they would get their visas If they refrained from publicizing their case during the summer months. On August 9 that commitment was officially confirmed to an American visitor In Moscow. Robert Abrams.