The 800-member Staff Society of Long Island Jewish Medical Center has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Soviet government to release Dr. Mikhail Stern, a prominent Soviet Jewish physician, Dr. Stern was sentenced earlier this month to eight years at hard labor on charges of alleged bribery and swindling of patients.
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