Article: Soviet Jewish emigrants find selves in Italian limbo

This is the second in a series on emigration from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

LADISPOLI, Italy The thousands of Soviet Jews who have converged on this once-popular resort 25 miles south of Rome are in a kind of suspended animation - halfway between the communist East they left behind and the United States, where they are determined to go.

Their exact number varies from day to day.

Some are officially redesignated "refugees," eligible for admission to the United States, and therefore they leave. Newcomers arrive after having "dropped out" in Vienna, Austria, the main way station for Soviet-Jewish emigres with visas for Israel.

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