On June 20. 1984. 55 of my House colleagues cosigned a letter I sent to Soviet General Secretary. Konstantin Chernenko concerning the grave situation facing the Tarnopolsky family. Tarnopolsky first applied to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. in December 1976. with his wife. Olga. and daughter. Irina. They were refused in September 1979. and reapplied in June of the same year. Three months later he was again refused on the grounds that his invitation to Israel had been from "insufficiently close" relatives. In the meantime. as a result of his emigration application. Tarnopolsky had been forced out of his Job and was after that prevented from obtaining all but menial employment. Tarnopolsky taught chemistry at the Jewish University established in 1981 by Jewish community leader Alexander Paritsky for children of Refuseniks barred from other Soviet schools.
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