The World - News from Oct. 27, 1986
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, unable to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow, nonetheless appealed to him to let Jews emigrate to the country of their choice. Wiesel, a survivor of the World War II concentration camps, said on leaving Moscow that he hopes to return for a meeting with Gorbachev and that he would urge him to reverse Soviet policy on Jews who have been refused permission for emigration. Wiesel said Gorbachev did not give a reason for not meeting him.
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