A five-year wait for exit visas has ended for Aleksander and Oksana Chertin of Leningrad, who were told that they had received permission to emigrate to Israel, along with their son, according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The Chertins, well-known activists in the Leningrad community, first applied to leave in March, 1972.
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