The World - News from May 21, 1985
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The Soviet Union has denied a visa to an American linguist, causing seven other U.S. scholars to cancel a trip to a 10-day conference at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The visa application of Joshua Fishman, 59, professor of social sciences at Yeshiva University in New York, was refused without an explanation, and the other scholars then canceled their trip, though they had been granted visas.
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