Shcharansky to Visit U.S. in May
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Freed Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky today made his first visit to Israel’s Parliament and later told reporters he plans to visit the United States in early May and might meet with President Reagan.
The trip by Shcharansky, 38, a Jewish mathematician freed Feb. 11 after nine years in a Soviet labor camp and prison, to the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, was his first public appearance after more than a month. He urged the fractious Israeli legislators to “speak in one voice” on behalf of Soviet Jewry.
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