The World - News from March 13, 1987

A cancer-stricken woman with only months to live has appealed for permission to leave the Soviet Union so that she can spend her final days with her family in Lod, Israel. Sheina Schwartz, 65, said she and her husband, along with her daughter and the daughter’s family, have been refused permission to leave for the last five years. In a letter to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Schwartz, who already has had three cancer operations, said: “Cancer is devouring my last human resources . . . and my only wish is to live my final days . . . surrounded by those close and dear to me in Israel.”