The World - News from Sept. 17, 1987

Jewish dissident Alexei Magarik returned to Moscow and a joyous greeting from friends and fellow activists after more than a year in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia. Magarik, 28, was released after serving 16 months of a three-year term on drug charges that he said were fabricated to stifle his complaints about the treatment of Soviet Jews and his teaching of Hebrew. Magarik said he has not been told whether his request to emigrate to Israel will be allowed. A number of activists freed this year have been granted permission to leave within weeks of their release.