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Soviet scientist seeks emigration amid isolation in Moscow
Benjamin G. Levich, a leading Soviet electrochemist and Academy member, applied for exit to Israel but was denied and demoted. His research is unpublished, mail and phones halted, and he welcomes Western visitors only in witness but cannot attend. He says fear is not his worry, but the lack of precedent and rules governs his fate.
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Benjamin G. Levich
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Soviet Academy of Sciences
Moscow University
Academy of Sciences
Mstislav Keldysh
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