A young Moscow Jewish student is holding a hunger strike in the Soviet capital in protest against the denial of his visa, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported here. The student, Viacheslav Fishkin, applied for an exit visa in May 1973 and since then, after he was made to leave school, has been working as a porter.
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