Igor Tufeld, a new immigrant from the Soviet Union now doing his military service here, says the Soviet authorities are endangering his mother’s life by continually delaying an operation for a benign brain tumor. Vladimir and Izolda Tufeld have been refused exit permits since 1977, despite a petition by 35 U.S. Senators.
Vladimir, now in a Moscow hospital after suffering a heart attack, has been refused permission to leave on the grounds that he once worked in a Moscow electronics factory. The factory manager has testified he was not engaged on security work.
Their son said doctors in Moscow continually postponed scheduled operations on the grounds they were “suddenly called to conferences abroad.” A number of neurosurgeons around the world have offered to operate on Mrs. Tufeld, but her applications for permission to leave the Soviet Union temporarily, returning after the operation, have also been refused.
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