The World - News from May 2, 1985
The family of imprisoned Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky said that Soviet authorities have shut off all contacts with him for the rest of the year. A statement released in Tel Aviv by the Free Shcharansky Committee said Soviet officials told his mother, Ida Milgrom, that letters to the prisoner are being confiscated and visiting rights suspended until the end of the year.
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