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Friday, March 21, 1986 Daily Nebraskan ' Pago 3 Former Soviet scientist Uf JL professor thanks By Jen Deselms Staff Reporter Scientist A.M. Khazanov gave a UNL English professor an Israeli wooden camel as a gift of thanks for encourag ing him while he was in disfavor with the Soviet government. During a press conference Thursday , morning Khazanov said a letter from Prof. Paul Olson gave him encourage ment when the Soviets curtailed his scientific studies. He said Olson's invi tation to attend a conference at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Edu cation pleased him even though he did not expect to attend. Khazanov, an internationally recog nized expert on the nomadic indigen ous people of middle Asia, is in Lincoln this week for a Great Plains Center conference on "Plains Indian Cultures: Past and Present Meanings." When Khazanov applied for permis sion to emigrate to Israel six years ago, he said, the Soviet government refused his application because it was not in their interest for him to move. Kha zanov said he wanted to move to Israel because he is Jewish. Olson first wrote to Khazanov 18 months ago to invite him to the confer ence. But Khazanov couldn't attend the conference because he couldn't leave the country. If someone had told him then that he eventually would be able to attend the conference, Khazanov said, he would have thought it was a "cruel joke." Olson's letter surprised him, Kha zanov said, and he sent a reply through friends in Finland. When asked how he got the letter out of the Soviet Union, Khazanov at first would not answer. Then he replied that he sent the letter by "pigeon post", since birds have no borders. After the government refused his emigration application, Khazanov said he was removed from the Soviet Aca demy of Sciences, and couldn't speak about or publish his research. But, he said, he was able to send manuscripts to other countries for publication. Kha zanov continuted to insist on his right to emigrate. Then, last November, he was called into the KGB office and given a last official warning to stop insisting on the move to Israel. But just when he thought he would be sent to Siberia, Khazanov said, the government told him he would be leav ing for Israel in three days. Khazanov and his family now live in Israel, where he teaches at Hebrew University. Even after Khazanov arrived in Israel, communication was difficult. Olson finally found him after contacting Kha zanov's relatives who also are living in Israel. Khazanov said he thinks the confer ence goes beyond Nebraska and the United States. 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