Like most refuseniks. he has lost his job. his status and his right to work in the field for which he was trained. Worse than that. he has also been imprisonednot just once. but twice. He was first jailed in July 1981 on trumpedup charges of currency trafficking and speculation because his financial plight had forced him to sell some of his deceased mothers jewelry. But 5 months of jail and 3 years of hard labor at Gorky did not deter Mr. Rombe from his struggle to receive permission to emigrate. Last year his family was finally given the necessary documents allowing them to leave the country. But just days before their scheduled departure.
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