Some of the American Congressmen who met Mr. Gorbachev said he told them. "You know our secrets. we know yours. as soon as we reach an arms control agreement. the problem of refuseniks will promptly be settled." Strange! After all. emigration by no means touches on Soviet vital interests. it is a relatively simple matter. As Speaker Wright wrote in the June 3 letter. a solution to it would most favorably influence further arms control negotiations. Why must the infinitely more important. complex problem of arms control precede the incomparably simpler problem of emigration? There are other questions too. How can Gerasimov and Kuznetzov contradict Gorbachev and get away with it? I know one thing for sure: My wife paid with her life. Im refused permission to emigrate for 12 years. though not ten. but 32 years. have gone by since I did classified work. many refuseniks waiting far more than ten years are also refused because of "secrecy." Prof. NAUM MEIMAN.
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