They constantly stand in the eye of surveillance. beneath an unveiled. threatening shadow of arrest. Such prejudice for many years has been the case. Recently. however. a new form of officially proscribed intolerance has dictated that Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel or elsewhere are finding themselves "bound in miseries." Perhaps the Soviet government is fearful that emigres would later speak out against policies in their former homeland. or perhaps it is just concerned that a mass exodus would bespeak dissatisfaction by itself. Perhaps it worries over the opinions their strategically situated Middle Eastern allies might develop if the rights of humanity and freedom of national choice were extended to Jewsthus perhaps adding the human resources of thousands to the besieged state of Israel. It could be for any of numerous reasons that the Soviet government. until the spotlight of world attention in recent months focused on the problem. deemed proper the disregard of a 1948 United Nations civil rights declaration and clamped a tight lid on Jewish population exit visas. However. Mr.
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