I was able to have a provision included in our Partys statement protesting communist oppression of Jews and other minorities. This is why. as U.S. Representativeelect. I addressed the President on behalf of Soviet Jews. and as a member of the House of Representatives. cosponsored legislation to provide 30.000 special immigrant visas to Soviet Jews wishing to enter the United States. It is also why I wrote to Frank Shakespeare. Director of the U.S. Information Agency. requesting that the Voice of America add Yiddish to the other language services for Eastern Europe. Because of my concern. I joined 43 colleagues in the House last June in writing to President Nixon. asking him to make a public statement protesting the trial of Soviet Jews in Kishinev.
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