A 37-year-old woman in her eighth month of pregnancy arrived in Israel Friday, six years after she applied for an exit visa from the Soviet Union. Ina Baruchina was accompanied by her husband, Dmitri, and two children, aged 12 and 10, from a previous marriage. She lost her job as musicologist with a record company when she applied to emigrate in 1979, and since then had held a Hebrew language study group in her Moscow apartment. In February the Soviets allowed 88 Jews to emigrate, of whom 27 came to Israel.
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