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England's Keston College, a research center on Christianity under Communism, reports that 30,000 of the estimated 150,000 Soviet Pentecostalists are seeking to emulate 255,000 Soviet Jews and emigrate. Supporters of the seven claim the State Deparment has been lax in pressing the Soviets, which State denies. U.S. diplomats have tried to talk them into leaving the embassy as the only way to get an exit visa. Meanwhile, the State Deparment objects to a bill by Michingan Senator Carl Levin, co sponsored by 64 other Senators, to improve the seven's circumstances by giving them permanent U.S. resident status and making them eligible for citizenship in 1983.
Even if the bill passes, it may be too late for Augustina and Lidiya, who this month wrote Soviet President Brezhnev. "People of the world "-" case as a murder committed by you. If these two great countries cannot find a positive solution to this small question, how then can they solve the big ones?"