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...Alan M. Dershowitz...
Shcharansky recorded the message, which also thanks people at Harvard for supporting his cause, during a Monday meeting with Dershowitz in New York...
Shcharansky, who came to symbolize the plight of Soviet Jewry, told Dershowitz that the decision of American activists to focus attention on his case saved his life...
Comparing Shcharansky to "Rip Van Winkle" after his nine-year imprisonment, Dershowitz said the dissident did not fully understand the implications of Soviet divestment and that his message should be regarded as a "general moral suggestion" rather than a specific tactical recommendation...
...Dershowitz played the tape at a luncheon for Gregory and Isai Goldstein, two Jews from the Georgian republic who were recently allowed to leave the Soviet Union after waiting 15 years for exit visas...