Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported yesterday that a number of young Soviet Jews who had applied for exit visas to go to Israel, including Yevgeny Levich, 25, the son of Prof. Benjamin Levich, and Edward Finkelstein of Vilna, 31, have received call-up papers to report for service in the Soviet Army. Military service in the Soviet Union is selective, and students are not called up as a rule. But with Jewish activists the procedure is that first they are expelled from the institutions of higher learning, and then are called up for military service as people without employment or any other occupation.
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