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I<os-Anato!sJs.y, , • . .JI THE SOVIET LAZAR GOSMAR RENATA BA8AK. ,, EMIGRB M1.1Sic Director and Soloist Mezzc-sopranQ ,. , · . fonner .:: · " ! ·;~ ORCHESTRA 1 Bolshoi Opera-Slal"'n "' , < • • ,f .t ' · "Th.e Soviet Emigre Orchestra played with a waon glow, a .gerruine feeling fur th11 "'' 1111 music. Mr:- Gosman's playtng"was luxuriant, almost voluptuous and iITesftltible"' • ' : -JbeNew\btiq~ ,,,.1 ~ ,., i:- . \.J ":")lh '-f - , I • -, • •!, .- 11f, ••• RENATA BABA!<, Mezzo-soprano, detector from the M~ow ~Ishoi O);leµi, , .. ,, "One of the most exciting voices of our time ... 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' · ' _\ \ f'.'. f; \e:, Sak~atov1'nternational Committee, Inc. : P.O. Box 9422 Washington, D.C. 20016 President Tel. (202) 364-0200 *Sheldon Lee Glashow Executive Director Edward D . Lozansky May 5, 1982 Secretary-Treasurer Sanford A. Gradinger Mr. Morton C. Blackwell Members Special Assistant to the President Vassily Aksyonov The White House * Andrei Sakharov *Philip W . Anderson Washington, D.C. 20500 World Renowned Physicist *Christian B. Anfinsen Peace Nobel Laureate Raymond Aron Exiled to Gorki, U .S.S.R. *Julius Axelrod *Baruj Benacerraf *Hans A. Bethe *Konrad Bloch • Herbert C. Brown Dear Morton: Vladimir Bukovsky *Owen Chamberlain Barber B. Conable On May 10, 1982 a group of Soviet citizens named "Camd..ttee of • Leon N . Cooper Divided Families" whom I represent in the West begin a hunger strike *Carl F. Cori * Allan M. Cormack which will continue untill they receive permission to leave the Bob Dole Soviet Union to be reunited with their husbands, wives and children • Renato Dulbecco living in the United States, France and West Gennany. One of those Pierre Emmanuel Millicent Fenwick people is my wife Tatyana I.ozansky. We have 10-years-old daughter Herman Feshbach Tanya wha:n I have not seen since 1976. • Paul J. Flory Arthur J. Goldberg Henri Hajdenberg The group "Young Republicans" has decided to take the case of Marek Halter supporting the strikers as a national project. The have been instru­ S.l. Hayakawa mental in getting Senator Bob Ix:>le and Rep. Jack Kemp to introduce a Margaret M. Heckler *Robert W . Holley joint resolution in both House and Senate which will demand fra:n the Frank Horton Soviet authorities to respect the Helsinki Final Act ' s staterrent about Eugene Ionesco family reunification. Jack Kemp Edward M. Kennedy Marc de Kock The press-conference with Bob Dole and Jack Kemp will take place • Arthur Kornberg Torn Lantos on Monday May 10, 1982 at 10 am in the US Capitol Building, Room EF 100. Joel Lebowitz The religious wedding cererrony between my wife and me will be performed. Leon Lederman Louis Leprince-Ringuet Bernard Henry Levy I am asking you to approach the President of the United States • Andre Lwoff Ronald Reagan to see whether he will agree to make a statement on this Vladimir Maxirnov matter. In this case we hope this statement can be read at the press­ Zubin Mehta Louis Michel conference. Jack Miller Daniel Patrick Moynihan Thank you very much for your support. God bless you. *Robert S. Mulliken Ernst Neizvestny Victor Potapov *llya Prigogine *James Rainwater Mstislav Rostropovich Maxim Shostakovich Joseph Silverstein *Herbert A. Simon Edward Teller F.dward I.ozansky *Howard Ternin Executive Director Paul E. Tsongas Valentin Turchin George Vineyard P.S. We hope that you and your wife will be able to attend * George Waid cererrony which will take place during the press-conference Jerome B. Wiesner Robert R. Wilson *Nobel Laureates a non-profit tax exempt organization. .I J' ,. ,· AN OPEN LETTER To: President Francois Mitterand, President of the Republic of France Chancellor Helmut Schmitt. Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Gennany President Ronald Reagan, President of the United States Dear Sirs.: We, Soviet members of the Divided Families Group, appeal to you for your support and understanding. For if peace and goodwill among nations rests on mutual respect for the rights of each other's citizens, and especially their families, then our plight is surely more than regrettable. Our situation: as Soviet citizens married to citizens of the USA, France and West Germany, we have been consistently denied the right to join our spouses, and in some cases children, now resident in your countries. Some of us have suffered such enforced separation for up to five years now. In no case have the Soviet authorities any valid reason for withholding our exit visas, a flagrant violation of the Final Act of the Helsinki Accords. Moreover, the personal agony of separation from our loved ones is aggravated by the extremely precarious position imposed upon us as "refuseniks" in a largely unsympathetic society. Repeated applications to the -Soviet authorities have served only to frustrate us.still further. We are desparate. On April 2, 1982, we began a ten day hunger strike ending today. If no relief is forthcoming, we shall, on May 10, 1982, strike again in earnest until we are released from such cruel and unusual punishment -- either to join our families, or by death. We have no other choice. · - We beg you, leaders -of the countries we hope to raise our families in, to do all you can to end this inhuman, unmotivated and totally unnecessary tragedy. Respectfully, Tatiana Azure Yuri Balovlenkov Iosif Kiblitsky Tatyana Lozansky April 12, 1982 ·Moscow. USSR · ;· .. .~ .... .. -..____.,, .. • ·•.• .,.. ..... ...., ~ •-.,,.......... .;• ~-.... ....,_.~, ,-•-i,r;. f"\-_,,.,. ;..1"->~';- ..;: -~"• ~ . .._ .. .:..,.i -· \ •• < .• . .. .; _....., ... ... • • . ,•r, ... 46' •, ~ 9tti:,~;: ~- gtgt' . .. .' ' Most Soviets who , want to leave . · their homeland belong to the op- , pressed side of communist society. '. But I can now report the .case of a woman from the Soviet upper crust who is so desperate ·to emigrate that . ' . .\ .J -:• J .' .. - ."'f she plans to ·begin a hunger strike . pext week i,n hopes of forcing the Kremlin to let her go. · · The, woman's :name · is :Tatyana. Yershov Lozansky. She is 29 years .. ~ Sakharov International Committee, Inc. P.O . Box 9422 W ashington, D .C. 20016 I Presiden t I Tel. (202) 364-0200 t *Sheldon Lee Glashow \ Executive D irector Edward D. Lozansky \...... ' Secretary-Treasurer Sanford A. Gradinger July 29, 1982 Members Vassily Aksyonov Mr. Morton C. Blackwell * Andrei Sakharov *Philip W . Anderson The White House World Renowned Physicist * Christian B. Anfinsen Peace Nobel Laureate Raymond Aron Washington, D.C. Exiled to Gorki, U.S.S.R. *Julius Axelrod *Baruj Benacerraf *Hans A. Bethe *Konrad Bloch Dear Morton: *Herbert C. Brown Vladimir Bukovsky *Owen Chamberlain Thank you very much for helping to pass this letter to Zubin Barber B. Conable Mehta. I am asking him to participate in our project in LA. * Leon N. Cooper I am looking forward to introduce my wife and daughter to you. I hope *Carl F. Cori * Allan M. Cormack we can rrake a good public relation enterprize for the conservative Bob Dole cause .when she will cane to the United States. If you have any ideas * Renato Dulbecco let us know because the YR are planning scrnething in this respect. Pierre Emmanuel Millicent Fenwick Herman Feshbach Thanks again, God bless you. *Paul J. Flory Arthur J. Goldberg Henri Hajdenberg Marek Halter S.l. Hayakawa Margaret M . Heckler *Robert W . Holley Frank Horton Eugene Ionesco Jack Kemp Edward M . Kennedy Marc de Kock F.dward Lozansky *Arthur Kornberg Tom Lantos Joel Lebowitz Leon Lederman Louis Leprince-Ringuet Bernard Henry Levy *Andre Lwoff Vladimir Maximov Zubin Mehta Louis Michel Jack Miller Daniel Patrick Moynihan *Robert S. Mulliken Ernst Neizvestny Victor Potapov *Ilya Prigogine *James Rainwater Mstislav Rostropovich Maxim Shostakovich Joseph Silverstein • Herbert A. Simon Edward Teller *Howard Temin Paul E. Tsongas Valentin Turchin George Vineyard *George Waid Jerome B. Wiesner Robert R. Wilson *Nobel Laureates a non~profit tax exempt organization. .