The family of Boris and Natasha Katz of Moscow, which attracted international attention because their one-year-old daughter Jessica required treatment for a digestive disorder which Soviet doctors admittedly could not treat, arrived in Vienna today after finally receiving permission from Soviet authorities to emigrate. According to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, which reported their arrival in Vienna, the Katz’s nine-day-old daughter, Gabrielle, whose birth delayed the family from leaving Moscow, was carried off the plane by Natasha.
The family will fly tomorrow to Boston where Jessica will undergo an operation. Boris Katz thanked Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.Mass.) for making the final breakthrough in the family’s struggle to join his mother and two brothers in Cambridge, Mass. Kennedy helped clear the way for the Katz family to leave the Soviet Union during a visit in September when he met with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. In Washington, Kennedy said today he would meet the Katz family when they arrive in Boston. He said he thought American doctors would be able to cure Jessica of her ailment.
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