President. behind these cold statistics are individual men and women. One such person is Mikhail Sulevitch Beizer. a 33yearold engineer in Leningrad. Mikhail Beizer has been trying desperately to Join his wife and small son who were allowed to emigrate to Israel. According to Soviet authorities. reuniting Mikhail with his family is "not in the interests of the Soviet state." The arbitrarily cruel nature of the Soviet emigration process is clear when it is realized that Mikhail has not had access to any classified information or state secrets. Mr. President. it appears that Mikhails real crime is that he has been active in organizing fellow Jews in studying and lecturing about their Jewish heritage.
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