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From: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <189@spt.entity.com>
Date: 28 Nov 88 17:08:46 GMT
References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <268@lloyd.camex.uucp> <2331@cbnews.ATT.COM>  <2337@cbnews.ATT.COM>  <1025@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: gz@entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1025@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
>Other point: "There's nothing difficult about getting an emigration visa,
>it just takes time.  I applied once.  Turned down.  Applied again.
>Denied again.  Applied a third time.  Granted.  The Jews aren't treated any
>worse than anyone else, they just bitch louder."  (I do not vouch for the
>accuracy of this statement.)

I can vouch for the inaccuracy of that statement.  It might be true that Jews
are no more likely to be denied a visa.  But one difference, even leaving
aside differences in treatment before applying for visas, is that I bet your
friend still had a job after being turned down the first time.

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