Chanting “Happy Birthday Kremlin, let my people go,” members of the Committee to Free Marina Tiemkin and Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry staged a “Mayday for Marina Tiemkin” demonstration Tuesday at the Soviet UN Mission. The day also marked Marina’s 20th birthday, the sixth she has spent in forced separation from her father, from whom she was abducted by Moscow police agents in February 1973. The Committee to free Marina Tiemkin was formed recently to concentrate attention and activity on her case. It was given added impetus by the news that Marina had, for the first time since her kidnapping, been able to get a message to her father reaffirming her desire to rejoin him in Israel.
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