Speaker. Tzalo and Khaya Lipchin have been waiting over 3 years to be reunited with their son Leonid. who lives in Massachusetts. His parents live 5.000 miles away in Leningrad. and have been denied exit visas since they first applied to leave over 3 years ago. Now 34 years old. Leonid was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1978 after his 16day hunger strike embarrassed Soviet authorities into granting him an exit visa. Unfortunately. the Soviets have denied that same right to his parents. The Lipchins have received numerous denials of the requests to leave since they first applied.
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