Vladimir Markman, one of the first Jews in Sverdlovsk to apply for an emigration visa, arrived Sunday in Israel after serving three years in a Soviet labor camp. He will join his wife and child in Beersheba. Markman said he was arrested on the charges of a telephone operator who said he had made anti-Soviet comments in a telephone conversation.
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