The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry has urged Soviet authorities to comply with the last wish of Ida Salansky, mother of refusenik Naum Salansky, who is under treatment for terminal cancer in Israel. Her wish is “to see my son before I die.” Mrs. Salansky emigrated to Israel last August in the belief that her son and his family would soon follow. But Salansky is still denied a visa. According to Bernard Kaplan, chairman of the States Israel Committee for Soviet Jewry he is being harassed with false reports that his mother is not receiving medical care in Israel because she can’t afford it. “We have forwarded copies of Mrs. Salansky’s hospital records to Naum as further repudiation of the USSR’s barbarous lies.” Kaplan said.
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