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Wednesday, June 29, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 15 Russian Pentecostals reach Israel Tuesday United Press International VIENNA, Austria — A family of 15 Siberian Pentecostals flew to Israel Tuesday just 15 hours after their long struggle to emi grate from the Soviet Union en ded with their arrival in Vienna. The Vashchenkos left the Soviet Union Monday, five years to the day after five of them forced their way into the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in a desper ate bid to emigrate. Two members of another Siberian Pentecostal family, the Chmykhalovs, joined them, and the plight of the group, which became known as the “Siberian Seven,” was well publicized in the West. “This day is the fulfillment of 22 years of hope and fear,” said Lydia Vashchenko, 32, who flew from Israel to greet her family Monday in Vienna. The Vashchenkos, who also endured prison and labor camps during their attempt to emi grate, had tried since 1960 to leave the Soviet Union, where they said they were not free to f jractice their fundamentalist re- igion. Several tenets of their creed, including the education of chil dren at home and the refusal to serve in the military, conflict with Soviet law. Michael Rowe, a family friend who flew to Vienna to greet the Vaschenkos on their arrival from Moscow, said the family left Tuesday on a morning flight from Vienna to Tel Aviv. “We hope the Americans will make some kind of gesture,” Pyotr Vashchenko, 55, said on departure from Moscow with his wife, Avgustina, 13 children and their German shepherd, Vulkan. His daughter, Lyuba, 30, said the family felt “great” at the end of its struggle to win permission to emigrate. “It’s all gone so fast, we hardly know what day it is anymore,” she said, adding, the family was given visas Thursday and put on a train for the four-day trip from Siberia to Moscow the same day. After staging a 34-day hunger strike in the embassy in early 1982, Lydia Vashchenko re turned to the family home in Chernogorsk, Siberia, because Soviet authorities said she could apply for an exit visa there only. When she was allowed to leave the country for Israel 14 months later, the rest of the embassy squatters returned to Siberia to seek exit visas. The Vashchenkos, beaming through tears and looking some what dazed when they arrived in Vienna, sold their cow and house in their Siberian village to pay the visa fees of $1,000 each for the adults and $390 each for the two youngest children. but ai done unitiesdo n. 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It said a Cosmos satellite ilready docked with the Salyut carried food, water, compressed iir and clothes for the cosmo- dieved io ummerit igan are; home ii is a wife 1 a daujt |y name Commit ilanchard i say on hi reys h* inocentk the I where with staff photo by Peter Rocha A worker on a one way Which way? operating a Bobcat goes the wrong way However, with the size of his tractor, not many way street near the All Faiths Chapel. people are going to argue about it. kiming for space station Soviets attempting to dock steaks HOFF] RLITT TMt ATHI S. DISC. FIRST 30 MINS. OF 1ST SHOW (EyC. HOLIDAYS) 12:30 2:50 5:10 7:3010:00 Christopher R««va 2ND ft] Richard Pryor WEEK NoP>»»a>.NoOlacpunu. ft nauts. A three-man crew sent up two months ago overshot the target and had to return to Earth. Soviet television showed the fiery blastoff Monday of Soyuz T-9 less than three hours after it was launched at 5:12 A.M.EDT from the Baikonur Cosmod rome in Kavakhstan, 1,250 miles southeast of Moscow in central Asia. It usually takes about 24 hours to reach the space station. At the controls were comman der Vladimir Lyakhov, 41, who set a then-record of 175 days aboard Soyut-6 in 1979, and en gineer Alexander Alexandrov, 40, in space for the first time. Alexandrov’s wife, Natalia is on the mission control team. “It’s very good that at the desks there will be a person so close to me,” he said in a pre flight interview with the Izvkgestia newspaper. The government news agency Tass said the cosmonauts would link up with the space station “to perform scientific-technological and medico-biological re search.” There was no advance word of the mission and no indication how long it would last. But if the capsule succeeds in linking up with Salyut-7, the cosmonauts are likely to stay aboard for months, making Lyakhov the second cosmonaut to attempt two long-term stints in space. The Soviet space program in recent years has kept one “per manent” team on board its space stations, with relief crews flying up for visits of a week to bring mail and supplies. The last long term flight ended with a space endurance record of 211 days, with the crew returning to Earth on Dec. 10, 1982. The three-man team initially chosen for the next long-term mission went up April 29 in Soyuz T-8. But the capsule over shot the Salyut by a mile, failed to link up, and returned to Earth 24 hours later. Soviet scientists later told Western diplomats the on-board computer failed dur ing the approach and manual corrections were not possible. Lyakhov said in a pre-flight interview “our space equipment is being perfected, as they say, not by the day but by the hour,” he said. 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