The World - News from June 16, 1988

A family of Soviet Jews waiting to emigrate for 11 years was refused exit visas, two weeks after meeting President Reagan during his encounter with refuseniks and dissidents while he was at the Moscow summit. Tanya Ziman said she was telephoned by emigration authorities and told the family should not bother to reapply for visas until 1992. “They gave no reason,” she said. Ziman, her husband, Yuri, and their 12-year-old daughter have been repeatedly refused permission to emigrate since they first applied in 1977, usually on “security grounds.”