He has not seen his wife and daughter in 30 years. He joined us this afternoon. Also. I had tile opportunity of talking to him for an hour in my office before we went to the Human Contacts Conference in Bern. Despite continued emigration applications and continued highlevel United States support for the Michelson case. the Soviet Government refuses to resolve it. even after 30 years. Another particularly poignant case is that of the Balovlenkov family. Yuri and Elena Balovlenkov were married in late 1978. Ever since then. Yuri has been trying to get out of the Soviet Union to Join his wife in Baltimore.
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