Soviets Deny Wald Entrance To Conference

Soviet authorities barred George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, from attending a scientific symposium on Moscow on Thursday.

The symposium was organized by dissident Jewish scientists seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union.

Participants at the gathering included ten American and Canadian scientists that Soviet officials warned not, to attend, but did not attempt to stop. The officials turned back Wald and Robert Goldberg, a scientist from the National Institutes of Health, when they tried to leave Leningrad for the conference.

James Griffin, a professor at the University of Maryland, said yesterday that although Soviet authorities did not disrupt the meeting, "it was quite obvious that they knew what was going on."

William Glaberson, an American physicist from Rutgers University said he thinks the Soviet government did not outlaw the meeting because they do not want to jeopardize relations with western nations.