mclure@SRI-UNIX@sri-unix (05/15/82)
a213 1040 15 May 82
AM-Foreign Briefs,580
MOSCOW (AP) - The wife of exiled Soviet chess grandmaster Viktor
Korchnoi said Saturday her son had been released from a labor camp and
the pair would reapply next week to emigrate to the West.
Bella Korchnoi said by telephone from her apartment in Leningrad
that authorities ''told me I could apply again'' once her son, Igor,
was free.
Igor Korchnoi, 23, was released Thursday after serving 2 1/2 years in a
camp near the Siberian city of Kurgan, 1,060 miles east of Moscow. He
was convicted in December 1979 on draft-dodging charges.
Viktor Korchnoi, who has twice unsuccessfully challenged Soviet
titleholder Anatoly Karpov for the world chess championship, defected
from the Soviet Union while playing in a chess tournament in Holland
in 1976. The exiled grandmaster now lives in Switzerland.
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