World : Early Refusenik’s Emigration OKd

WASHINGTON — Yuli Kosharovsky, a 47-year-old radio electronics engineer and the longest-standing Jewish “refusenik” in the Soviet Union, has been granted permission to emigrate to Israel, an official of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry said today.

Kosharovsky’s wife, Ina, 42, and their two children plan to leave Moscow in about six weeks, Deborah Strober, spokeswoman for the Jewish group, said after a telephone conversation with Ina Kosharovsky. Two weeks ago, in a policy shift, Soviet authorities told Kosharovsky and more than 40 other Jews who wanted to emigrate that their past involvement in work with security implications no longer would prevent their departure.