Countries as ideologically diverse as the Soviet Union and Argentina continue to illegally harass and imprison their people. In an excellent article in the May 14 New York Times entitled. "It Tolls for Thee." Mr. Anthony Lewis describes the plight of two physicists. Vladimir Kislik of the Soviet Union and Elena Sevilla of Argentina. Mr. Kislik. a Jew. applied for an emigrant visa to Israel in 1973. His wife and son were allowed to leave. but he was refused permission. He then lost his job. was sent to a psychiatric hospital and is now on trial on a charge of "hooliganism." He faces up to 5 years in prison.
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