Evgeny. is not allowed to work in his professional occupation as an engineer. and is hounded from odd job to odd job. Again. this is due to his refusnik status. Members of the Bialy family have been fired from their various jobs. and Judith and Leonid Bialy are both gravely ill. Valery Sherbaum. who completed his doctoral thesis in 1972. has been refused a visa on the pretext that seven pages of his thesis were based on classified material. Consequently. because these individuals are not permitted to work. there is every possibility that they will be imprisoned as "parasites"-a term Soviet officials use for one who is not a productive member of society. Unfortunately.