Shortly after this appeal was submitted to the United Nations. on December 5. 1969. a 30yearold Moscowborn Jew. Mr. Boris Sperling. told a press conference in New York how his efforts to emigrate to Israel from the Soviet Union had cost him 2 years in prison and 9 more in social and economic limbo before he finally got an exit visa from the Soviet Government. Up until now the Soviet Government has shown itself indifferent to the pleas of its Jewish citizens and to the occasional protests in other countries. But now an initiative has been taken which. hopefully. will oblige the Soviet Union. out of deference to the rule of law which it claims to respect. to grant exit permits to those of its Jewish citizens who wish to leave the Soviet Union for Israel or for other countries.
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