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TELERECORDING
ROBERT ELPHIK

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Background: Jewish balled star, Valery Panov and his wife Galina, arrived in Vienna on Friday (14 June) after a two year struggle to emigrate form the Soviet Union.

The couple flew to Vienna form Leningrad with a stopover at Budapest. This exclusive interview was recorded during the flight by British Broadcasting Corporation reporter, Robert Elphik and Visnews cameraman, Sepp Riff.

Galina, also a dancer, looked weary after her miscarriage on Monday (10 June) when she lost the couple's first child in the third month of pregnancy.

She had been in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius last week when they were told they were to be allowed to go. Valery Panov said the strain and excitement had been too much for his wife.

Before they left the Soviet Union, the couple took a farewell trip around Leningrad, where they were both out of work for two years since they were sacked form the Kirov ballet in 1971 for applying to go to Israel.

Valery Panov said he hoped to visit England within two weeks to thank the British for their help in supporting his case form abroad.

He said he hoped to make an extensive tour of the West once they had settled down, adding that he had worked out the choreographs of two new ballets which he would like to stage as soon as possible.

On the 'plane with the Panovs were four other Jawish families emigrating to Israel.