Felix Aronovich, one of Leningrad’s longest-term refusniks, has arrived in Vienna, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. He will rejoin his mother, brother, wife and son in Chicago. He has never seen his son, David, because his wife, Alla, was pregnant when she left the USSR in 1976. Aronovich was refused an exit visa since 1972. Meanwhile, Vladimir Slepak’s wife appealed to President Leonid Brezhnev for visas to Israel because Vladimir in Siberian exile, is ill and hospitalized, the two groups said.
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