Leonid Rigerman and his elderly mother will arrive in New York on Saturday night, State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said today. Their departure from the Soviet Union after months of diplomatic infighting represents a victory over Kremlin claims that they are Soviet subjects. (In New York the Rigermans’ attorney, Daniel Greer, said they would leave Moscow Saturday and arrive here at Kennedy Airport via Pan American at 10 p.m. He said he had spoken to them by phone yesterday, and that Mrs. Esther Rigerman had been more than overjoyed at the impending journey and her son said he looked forward to “seeing my American friends.”)
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