w w V 9 E COVER RELI o~ffaRith By Rachel Gottlieb W NDING THEIR way through Leningrad, driven by a desire to elp peopl wo are big hedprioe i their own homeland eitwoaUniversity rfsenik families last summer. he Jsnewish families are among 10,000 families that have applied to leave nnthe Soviet Unin but have been denied exit visas. They are among 400,000 families that have requested invitations from a broad - a prerequisite to applying for exit visas. After such applications, Jews are often fired, demoted, or denied promotions at their jobs. Harassment by the KGB is common, as is harassment by colleagues. Refuseniks have been arrested on trumped-up charges of 'hooliganism' and 'anti-Soviet activity,' and in some cases have been imprisoned and tor- tured. After being lost for three hours, LSA seniors Jennifer Roth and Karen Muchin finally found the apartment of the Bagamolny family. They walked in silence up the steps of the dimly lit concrete building, being careful not to draw attention to themselves by speaking English, which could poten- tially endanger the Bagamolnys, who are not allowed to fraternize with Westerners. Once inside the apartment, the students were quickly ushered into a tiny room to avoid confrontation with on f BenamnBagmony's colleagues, who ais in another rooms. Tay Bagmon etered the rom and in hushed and hurried whipers she begged the students for news and shared the details of her situation. Later, Benjamin joined the studen- ts for dinner. "They were so warm to us," Roth said. "Tanya cooked us a large dinner, and they were so happy to see us. Their warmth made us feel lie we hda purpose. BENJAMIN BAGAMOLNY is list- ed as "the most refusenik" in the Guiness Book of World Records. He has been waiting for an emigration visa for the past 19 years. Bagamolny has been refused, in part, because he served in the Soviet military in 1971 and, according to the Soviet gover- nment, this makes him a security risk. Bagamolny asserts that he was not privy to military secrets during his service. Tanya Bagamolny has been waiting for an exit visa for three years. "She is suffering very much," said Natasha Sauerbilov, Tanya's sister, who now lives in San Francisco. When Tanya applied for her exit visa she was fired from her job as a professor at the University of Moscow. Accor- ding to Natasha, Tanya is having trouble adjusting to her new life. Raoth and Muchin are members of the University-based chapter of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, which has adopted the Bagamolny family. Another member, LSA senior Marcy Fleischer, visited five refusenik families last summer. In Moscow, she visited an American- born ref usenik, Abe Stolar. Stolar was born in Chicago in 1911, but when his father returned to Russia in 1931, the family travelled with him. In 1936 Stolar's father was arrested in Stalin's purges, and one year later his mother and sister were arrested. They all died in the Gulag Archipelago. Stolar escaped arrest and later fought the Nazis in the Russian Army. In 1975, Stolar, his wife Gitta, and their son Mikhail ap- plied for exist visas, which were gran- ted that year-. "But when thy got on the plane to leave, the KGB made them get off - they said Gitta's passport was not in order. She was accused of having done classified work after she retired," Fleisher said. The Stolars were f orced to relinquish their Soviet citizenship when they applied to emigrate. They also gave up their apartment, and are now, "living out of suitcases," accor- ding to Fleisher. In March 1985, Stolar was told to resubmit his application for exit mission to leave. 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T.M.C. is fond of experimentin with strings and sythesizers and the effect is often pleasing. A sweet cello weaves its way in and out of an "almost-does-justice" cover of Alex Chilton's lovely "Kangaroo." The cello works well against Gordon Sharp's distinctive vocals, and the usual guitar, drums, and bass bed- ding. Elizabeth Fraser's voice floats like lace above a baroque string sec- tion on "Another Day"; she makes the lyrics incomprehensible, but it doesn't matter. Her voice works like any other instrument - in this case, a soulful flute. Alas! the album gets bogged down too soon in Creative Expression. Another Chilton cover, "Holocaust," has a self-pitying, hypochondriac piano and only Chilton's good lyrics to pull it through. "Fond Affections," a song originally from Rema-Rema, in- vites us to . . . all sit down and cry and you'd almost take them up on it if it weren't for the song's loony, slow- motion '40s melody. The instrumentals on the album are more successful, however. "The Last Ray" begins with a moody syn- thesizer and drum background, and later adds a pleasant guitar line. Soon, flecks of acoustic guitar poke through the musical weave like sunlight in the trees. "FYT" is industrial pop music with the expected factory noises; the tune - played on a synthesizer - is static and the noises behind it change. It's a different approach, and it's certainly not relaxing. "Barramundi" is an instrumental that uses the sounds of the sea and a wimpy melody; it works neither as mood music nor pop music, though it is pleasant in a dazed, stupid way. Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance contributes the most interesting in- strumentals. Her voice floats dream- like and menacing in "Dreams Made Flesh." The song, with an anxious string background, is like a bad night at a mental institution. Gerrard's voice also floats and dives amid an odd fog of instruments in "Waves Become Wings," a song that sounds like an Islamic chant. Gerrard uses a looped accordion that drones away like a walk through a Middle-Eastern BENJAMIN BAGAMOLNY: He's still waiting. . . SoEERY TU E SDAY ALL S EATS 50MONDAY THRU FRIDAY F I I treated that badly," said Fleisher. Most refuseniks, however, don't share Stolar's high spirits, and are looking to the West for support, as 10 05s 1 00, 400.7:0,9:50 1005121 24 450,7:0,:3 100 2 2 3040,: 0,94 LUVE AND DIE LA. (R) 10:00,12:10, 2:00, 4:00,.6:00 100,11524,407:109:30 Jennifer Roth found in her visit with the Bagamolnys. "The Bagamolnys feel desperate and abandoned," Roth said. Benjy's been attacked on the street, and their several times," she added. While Roth was visiting the Bagamolny family, Tanya's friend Olga, also a refusenik, stopped by en route to Siberia. - hear attck a a ork campd in Sberia. Olga heard about the attack what her husband's condition was. He had been sentenced to hard labor for being an activist and speaking out for human rights," Roth said. 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