The State - News from Oct. 1, 1986
An Israeli student, Smadar Lavie, 31, won a three-year battle with the U.S. Information Agency when officials waived a stipulation in her Fulbright scholarship that would have required her to return to Israel for two years when she completes her doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. “We prevailed, survived, persisted,” said her American husband, Forest Rouse, 30. The couple had pleaded that two years in Israel would harm Rouse’s career as a particle physicist.
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