The Goldstein brothers of Tbilisi have been told by KGB officials that they will be put on trial for “parasitism” and sentenced to three to seven-year terms. Forty-four-year-old Grigory Goldstein and 37-year-old Isay Goldstein, who first applied for exit visas in 1972, were summoned on Friday and told that unspecified charges would be brought against them under an unpublished 1972 law, it was reported today by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, vice-chairman of the GNYCSJ, who met the Goldsteins on a visit to the Soviet Union last year and has communicated with them regularly, has been in touch with State Department officials and along with other leaders is contacting Soviet officials.
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