A Michigan Congressman has disclosed that the U.S. has requested the Soviet Union to grant an exit visa to Prof. Vitali Rubin, a Moscow Jewish activist, who has a standing invitation to teach classical Chinese culture at Columbia University in New York. Rep. Marvin Esch, a Republican, said he had assurances from U.S. Ambassador Walter Stoessel in Moscow that the request had been made.
Prof. Rubin is a specialist in Chinese history and philosophy. He and two friends staged a hunger strike in Moscow earlier this year to protest harassment by Russian authorities. Esch and Robben Fleming, president of the University of Michigan, had sent a joint letter to Prof. Rem Khokholov, the president of Moscow State University, expressing concern over Soviet refusal to grant Prof. Rubin an exit visa.
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