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CHURCHILL Special to The Jewish News It's tough being a Jewish refusenik in Soviet Armenia. Far from Russia, Armenian Jews are even more isolated than their counterparts in Moscow or Leningrad. I visited a Jewish family in Yerevan recently during a trip to the USSR. Viii and Evgenia Palanker invited me to their apartment so we could talk freely about the plight of Soviet Jews, and especially the plight of the Palanker family living in the capital of Soviet Armenia. I was on a tour of the Caucusus with a group of American attorneys. We were seeing the usual tourist sights in Moscow, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku and Len- ingrad. Along the way, we met with lawyers and judges to ask questions about the Soviet legal system. And, all along the way, I was heading off from the rest of the group to meet with Jewish refuseniks. To arrange my meeting with the Palankers, I found a public telephone far from my hotel. I knew the hotel phones were bugged. I spoke to Vili in Russian at first, but to my relief, he soon turned the con- versation around to English. Luckily, his English was superior to my poor blend of Russian and Hebrew. We agreed to meet at the Lenin statue in the main square of Yerevan. I told Vili he would know me by my pur- ple bag and blue shirt. Waiting for Vili at the statue was excrutiating:The place was crawling with Martha A. Churchill is a Royal Oak attorney and a member of Temple Beth El and Troy Jewish Congregation. police, as is most of the Soviet Union. I tried to look non- chalant. Finally a man ap- proached me and asked, "Are you looking for Palanker?" We took a bus to a part of town I had not seen on the bus tour that day. We walked through a courtyard where children played in the last few moments of daylight. Up the endless stairs. Finally I knew we had reached the Palanker flat when I spotted an Israeli flag sticker on the door. Inside, Vili's wife Evgenia had tea and cookies waiting. I told them my name, for the first time. I had not divulged my name on the phone, since, of course, their phone was bugged. If officials in Moscow deny a family their exit papers, the family can demonstrate or picket under the watchful eye of the western media. But a family in Yerevan can demonstrate as much as they like, all for nothing, since there are no foreign journalists. Keeping kosher is a tremen- dous struggle for Jews of the Soviet Union, but it is especially difficult in the Caucusus. The USSR is a meat-and-potatoes country. Most of that meat is Polish ham. Kosher sausage, kosher cheese, even peanut butter, are rare delicacies for Jews in southern USSR. The Palankers have been trying to leave the Soviet Union for years. Evgenia quit her job as a mathematician in 1971 because she supposedly had access to state `secrets" and would thus be forbidden to leave the country. Even now, the government uses her old job as an excuse to deny her permission to leave. And due to the family's outspoken- ness, the government also punishes both the Palankers'