Page 10-Saturday May 8, 1982-The Michigan Doily
Politics divide U.S.-Soviet families

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MOSCOW (AP)- Since she wed a
Soviet citizen nearly three years ago,
Susan Graham has learned. how to
wait-to wait for permission to enter
the Soviet Union and to wait for a visa
for her husband to join her in the United
States.
She and her husband, Matvey Finkel,
33, are among 19 U.S.-Soviet married
couples on the U.S. Embassy's
"representational list," consisting of 80
families whose efforts to be reunited
outside the Soviet Union have been
frustrated by the Kremlin.
"Three years ago we had plans," said
Ms. Graham, 26, of Spokane, Wash.
"Now we live pretty much from visa
application to application."
"WE HAVE put everything on ice
waiting for a decision," she said.
"When your life is put in suspension for
a while, you stop thinking about what
you'd do if..."
'U.S. Embassy sources say about 70
Americans marry Soviets every year,
and that most are allowed to either live
with their spouses in the Soviet Union,
or more frequently, leave together.
Four Soviet members of split families
have vowed to stop eating until they die
or are allowed to leave, and appealed to

'Now we live pretty much from visa application to
application.'
-Susan Graham
wife of Soviet citizen

evangelist Billy Graham, no relation to
Ms. Graham, to visit them during his
stay in Moscow.
GRAHAM, A Southern Baptist
minister, arrived here Friday to attend
the conference of "religious workers
for saving the sacred gift of life from
nuclear catastrophe." He pledged to
use the forum to preach "the Gospel of
Jesus Christ."
The four Soviets, members of the
unofficial "divided families group,"
said in a letter they say they sent to
Graham that they "have committed no
crime other than daring to love people
who happen to have been born or to live
in another part of the world."
"Persecuted, we ask for what is no
more than our elementary human
right-to build our families as living
testimony to the greater family of
mankind, undivided by boundaries

geographic, political or cultural," the
four wrote. They say they will stop
eating on May 10, the first day of the
religious conference.
YURI BALOVLENKOV, a spokesman
for the group, married Elena
Kusmenko, of Baltimore, Md., on Dec..
5, 1978. She has visited him in Moscow
several times. They have one daughter,
born in 1980. Soviet authorities have
repeatedly denied him permission to
leave.
Tatyana Lozansky, 30, the daughter
of a Russian three-star general, divor-
ced her husband, Edward, a Soviet
Jew, to allow him leave the country in
1976. Mrs. Lozansky, who lives in
Moscow with their 11-year-old
daughter, says she still loves her
husband and wants to rejoin him in
Rochester, N.Y.
Group member Iosif Kibilitsky, 36,
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-says he asked West German Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt to pressure Soviet
authorities to allow him to join his
German wife, Renata, and their infant
son, Mark.
TATYANA AZURE, 30, the fourth
member of the group, says she has ap-
pealed to French President Francois
Mitterrand to help her leave the Soviet
Union to live with her French husband,
Armand.
Perhaps the best-known such case
ended happily for Liza Alexeyeva,
daughter-in-law of Nobel Peacq Prize
laureate Andrei Sakharov. She was
allowed to join her husband, Soviet
emigre Alexei Semyonov, at his home
near Boston, Mass., after a 17-day
hunger strike by Sakharov.
Another highly publicized case in-
volves a Soviet woman, Irina Mc-
Clellan, who married University of
Virginia Professor Woodford McClellan
in 1974. For eight years, she says,
Soviet authorities have neither allowed
her to leave nor her husband to visit
her. In protest, she chained herself to
the U.S. Embassy fence during a 1978
visit to Moscow by Cyrus Vance, then
secretary of state.
Finkel and his wife say they "are not
yet desperate enough" to go on hunger
strike or demonstrate. Ms. Graham,
however, took the unusual step of en-
tering the Soviet Union on a two-week
tourist visa .in early April and over-
staying her allowed time.
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