Scientists defy Kremlin
■ NZPA-Reuter Moscow Some 60 . scientists, including 24 from outside the Soviet Union, squeezed into the living room of a Moscow flat yesterday for an unofficial seminar organised by Jewish scientists refused permission to emigrate. The seminar, the fourth such gathering since 1972, was held at the home of Viktor Brailovsky, a cyberneticist associated with the . underground journal, “Jews in the U.S.S.R." The foreign scientists came from the United States, Mexico, Britain, Norway, France, and Sweden. Some would-be participants were refused visas but Soviet authorities let the meeting go ahead without interference. The Jewish scientists said the seminar was designed to help researchers dismissed from their jobs keep up with scientific work in their disciplines. Among- the papers presented at the seminar was one by Andrei Sakharov, unofficial leader of Soviet dissidents, who has; been barred from coming to Moscow since he was exiled to. the provincial city of Gorky on January 22.
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