R.I. JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOC 130 SESSIONS S T. PROVIDENCE, RI 02906 ·Long-Awaited Visa Brings Both Sorrow and Happiness MOSCOW: Alekssandr and In the beginning, it ·was simply Lyudmila Lunts are finally going to because she loved him , Mrs. Lunts Israel. They have packed their explained. He was a mathematician books in suitcases and have begun and computer speciali st with a good THE ()NLY ENGi/SH JEvV/SH vVEEKLY 'N R. AND SOUTHEAST MASS to say goodbye to their friends. But job in a scientific institute. When he it is no easy task. decided to apply for a visa more They are husband and wife, but than three years ago. she agreed to are making this journey in con­ apply also. She was his second wife, trasting moods and for sharply the.y had been lllarried ·eight years different reasons. He ts a Jew; she is . and she did not want to be without an ethnic Russian. The two facts are him . central to their definitions of "When we began I was not so themselves, pivotal in determining sure that we should leave the coun­ where they look to find their roots. try, " she said. " I thought th at even For each of them, the sudden, sur­ here we could su rvive. But as time prising news that they would get went o n I realized we could not." their long-sought emigration visas Simply put, she saw in those set in motion great, contradictory years the dark sides of the Soviet currents of relief and sorrow, system. sides she said she never ~-cstasy and pain. knew ex isted. Shortly after hi s "It's not only a problem of application. Mr. Lunts was dismiss­ tickets and visas," Mr. Lunts said. ed from hi s job. a common fate for "Almost everybody who decides to those who ask to go to Israel. leave has to cut out something from She then felt she had to resign her the soul." post as a geologist to protect her Many Jews - Jews arc officially friends and colleagues at the considered one of more than a hun­ institute where she worked. They dred non-Russian ethnic groups in said they would welcome her back if the Soviet Union - say frankly that she did not emigrate. they want to leave not simply During the jobless years. her because they are Jews or because husband was jailed twice, fo r a few they are burdened by the anti­ days each time. He was picked up Semitism or by the lack of religious on the street for questioning by the freedom. but mainly because they K.G .B.-lhe Committee for Slate find the political and educational Security - perhaps 20 or 30 times. system oppressive. stining and Hi s apartment became a meeting hypocritical. They want to speak place for ot her applicants and for openly. read freely . And they arc those who had been turned down . think ing of their children's future. She saw what s uffering the Mr. Lunts's motives arc not so Government could bring on people. secular. "If I were not a Jew, I don't and now as she pads around the think I would leave the country." he apartment in blue jeans. getting said. "The bad features of this things re ady. tears arc never far social sys tem. for me, would not be below the surface. "I love the coun­ enough to make me leave. try-it is the system," she said. The Blcots, die Bunlffl "The longer we are here, the ISRAEL'S NUMBIR ONI! EXPORTl!R durl119 1975 la El Al hrael Airlines, whkh Hpertecl .. ........_,, worth $220 "Many years ago there were stronger the feeling we should go as million during last year. In the future, the airline plans to acquire MYen m- p1an .., and Arliia, the ceuntry'a flnt periods when I began to forget that fast as rossible." I'·• domntic aviation network and a subsidiary of El Al, will also lncrecne lh flMt. l'laM call fer Hpanalon ef Ben Gurion Airport, construction ef an International airport at Eilat, and another east ef Beerahna. I was a Jew. But pretty soon I had 'I Llke My Land' to remember it - I was forced to " I was a geologist." she added. " I remember it. The word. 'Jew.' when was on expeditions many times in labo ratory medicine at Miriam prononunced in a trolley bus, is Siberia. Central Asia . I like my land Fain Elected Chairman Hospi tal, and for the dermatology, pronounced in a low voice. It is im­ very much . I do not want to think pharmacology, and infectious and portant. but not so important, this that I ca nnot sec this place again. I Of Medical Fund Appeal rheumatoid disease programs at cursing in shops and in trolley buses like this place very much. Roger Williams General Hospital." and in stores. When simple people "My parents remain here, my The Brown Medical Program Butler Hospital, leading to im­ Mr. Fain noted that in 1970 were cursing it wa s not so impor­ sisters and many, many friends. I 1976 Annual Fund, the first annual proved ambulatory, inpatient and Rhode Island ranked 49th in terms tant. but when I saw th at intellec­ hope that somewhere, somehow I fund appeal for the University's special services to psychiatric of enrollment of state residents in tuals were also anti-Semitic. I felt it wi ll be able to come back." Medical Program, started Friday, patients, as well as a new psychiatry U.S. Medical Schools: it now ranks very st rongly." Her husband harbors the same Feb. 6, and will continue through residency program. 28th. He mentioned the cooperative Mr. Lunts sat in his sparsely fur­ hope. but he dares to say what he the month of April. "In addition," Mr. Fain con­ early identification of medical nished apartment in southwest must know is true, yet is afr aid to Norman M. Fain, a trustee of tinued, "It has provided staffs for students program which Brown es­ Moscow. the disorder of moving put into words. Ht too leaves peo­ Brown University who lives in the new family practice program at tablished with the University of su rrounding him. "To be in yo ur ple behind. His 18-year-old son by Providence, has been named chair­ Memorial Hospital, and helped to Rhode Island and Providence own country is very important," he his fi rst marriage is going with man of the Annual Fund. A 1936 recruit for the departments of College, and the special Fifth said intensely. "That is why I want them. · but his older daughter, graduate of the University of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and (Continued on page 12) to go to Israel. I feel my country is married and content, is not. Nor is Rhode Island, Mr. Fain is President there. not here." his 84-year-old father. of Apex, Inc. and Dighton In­ But his wife's country is here, not "I know that I have no chance of dustries, Inc., and a chairman of Rabin Successfully Stops there. She is not a Jew. and so she meeting them again," Mr. Lunts Teknor Apex Co. and of the shares none of her husband's com­ said. Haywood Co. Likud Move to Unseat Him pulsion to search for a land that she A sign now hangs in the corridor At a meeting in Brown's Mad­ can feel belongs to her. The forces of his apartment, hand-painted on dock Alumni Center with trustees JERUSALEM: Prime Minister oilfields - were exaggerated," Mr. that tug at her pull back, toward brown paper by friends during a and directors of the hospitals af­ Yit z hak Rabin on Monday Landau said. Russia . party marking his 52d birthday.just filiated with Brown's Medical successfully beat back an opposi­ Mr. Rabin sa id that Israel, after He understands. "It is very dif­ . a day after he learned on Jan. 21 Program, Mr. Fain stressed that the tion move to unseat him because of including the interim agreement ficult for her," he said . " It is a that the visas would be issued. Annual Fund effort is in the long­ hi s comments on an arms with Syrian 1974, had submitted to sacrifice for me ." It reads. " Visa-the best gift." term financial plan developed in procurement list sent to the United the United States a detailed list of 1971. States. The vote was 63 to 35, with its needs for five years, and a He outlined. the reasons for 12 abstentions. general outline of its needs for Conference To Explore initiating the annual fund at this The Likud Party, which proposed another five years. But when the time. They include the impending the no-confidence motion, asserted ·Ford Administration submitted its Jewish-Catholic Ties loss of federal start-up funds, the · that Mr. Rabin had undermined aid requests to Congress, the list need to establish a permanent base lsra~l's security by his remarks to was amended, he. added. A day-long conference on Jewish­ Providence, wili be the luncheon of ongoing support, and the Israeli reporters in Washington. In The Prime Minister confirmed Catholic relations will be held Mon­ speaker. desirability of fiscal independence a background briefing, Mr. Rabin that he was the "senior official" day, February 16, in the Sia vi n The program will also include · for the medical program from the said that· Israel had at first sub­ who had given the controversial Center at Providence college. four workshops covering _the rest of the University.