Jurgutis employs his skill as a musician at the Chicago Conservatory. He waits in frustration for word of his family. Mrs. Jurgutis has filed three requests for permission to emigrate. Her two latest appeals. the last being May 10 of this year. have directly addressed President Podgorny. All have been denied. Local authorities have told her that if she seeks the aid of the U.S. Embassy she will be immediately imprisoned. Mrs. Jurgutis has been dismissed from her job as a librarian. She has been denied alternative employment. She has been threatened with removal of her 11 year old daughter to a special school In order to "Sovietize her spirit." Searches of the Jurgutis home and seizure of personal property have occurred.
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