Goldfarb has been a good and productive member of Soviet society. He is a veteran of World War II and. as a result of injuries suffered at Stalingrad. lost a leg. This is the United Nations Year of the Handicapped and Goldfarbs case deserves special consideration. The denial of Goldfarbs application for a visa is alarming for another reason. Goldfarb is a leading scientist in the area of gene manipulation. At the time he applied to leave the Soviet Union. Goldfarb was heading the laboratory of molecular genetics at the Soviet academy and his particular field of research was bacterial plasmids.