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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...
Soviet emigration policy has become more stringent since Mikhail Gorbachev's succession to the top Soviet post, and Jews now have little hope of gaining exit visas, the Goldstein brothers said. But at the same time, would-be emigres who do not raise a public protest suffer less persecution than in the past, they said...
...Dane Bernbach ($1.7 billion) has the most to gain. After scoring numerous hits over the years with ads for longtime client Volkswagen, the agency attracted notice with its beguiling babies series for Michelin tires. But DDB lost several major clients in 1985, dropping $45 million in business with the exit of Polaroid and Atari alone...
Like tens of thousands of other refuseniks, the Luries had applied for, and been denied, emigration from the USSR. Their case was unique, though. They had initially been granted exit visas in January 1980, a year after their first application. Three days before their expected departure date, however, Emmanuel Lurie was summoned to OVIR, the Office of Visas and Registration, and informed that his family's exit visas had been cancelled for reasons of "state security." His wife's mother, who had applied with the Luries, was allowed to emigrate, and she now lives alone in Israel...
Other Russians and Jews, fearing guilt by association, will have nothing to do with them. This family has been trying to emigrate for six years, and no longer bothers to apply for an exit visa every six months. "When the children were young, it was not so bad. We had hope that we can leave. But now, it has been such long time. What if we have to stay here for rest of our lives?" Next year. Natasha will apply to a university, and her parents fear that continued visa applications will hurt her chances of being accepted...