The World - News from Dec. 15, 1988

Yuli Kosharovsky, 47, a radio electronics engineer and one of the longest-standing Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, has been granted permission to emigrate to Israel, an official of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry said in Washington. Kosharovsky, his wife Ina, 42, and their two children plan to leave Moscow in about six weeks, a spokeswoman for the Jewish group said after a telephone conversation with the refusenik’s wife. Kosharovsky had been seeking permission to emigrate since 1971. 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.