According to reports reaching the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, Soviet Jewish activist and long-time refusenik Mark Abramovich of Kishinev has received permission to emigrate to Israel, Eugene Gold, NCJS chairman, announced today. Abramovich, a leading activist in the USSR, first applied for an exit visa in 1972 and was refused in 1973. Since then he had repeatedly been denied a visa on the grounds of previous army service, though he had been demobilized in 1971. “We welcome this move by the Soviet authorities,” Gold said.
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