Solomon Alber and his courageous family are still in the Soviet Union. Let me recall for you the plight of the Albers. Mr. Alber. a mathematician and physicist. was director of a computer research laboratory when he applied for emigration visas for himself and his family. He was refused in 1975 and. as a consequence of the application. he was demoted. His wife. Evangelina. a physician. lost her Job as a pathologist. News about the familys application refusal spread quickly in their small scientific community outside Moscow. On June 23. 1976. the New York Times reported that Mr. Albers 15yearold son.
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