Twelve Hebrew University professors cabled the chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Commission today urging him to intervene with Soviet authorities to get a visa for Prof. Michael Zand, “Refusal to let him leave the USSR violates basic human rights and the principles of academic freedom,” they wrote.
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