Twenty-five Senators sent a letter Monday to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev on behalf of Igor Guberman, who was arrested in August 1979 on charges of dealing with stolen icons. The 44-year-old Jewish activist, journalist and author of popular science books, is expected to go on trial this week. The Senators urged that Guberman be released from prison and be allowed, along with his family, to emigrate from the USSR.
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