President. as an orig- inal cosigner of the letter seeking Senate d support for this amendment. I am gratit fied by the wide bipartisan support it has 11 received. The Senator from Washington e deserves our thanks for o leading this important effort. n That the amendment has been sponi sored by 72 Senators is clear evidence of the outrage that we feel at the Soviet Unions harsh policy of imposing ex- orbitant exit fees on Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel. This policy of placing fees of up to $25.000 on exit visas is an I alarming reminder of how tenuous even t the limited freedoms in the Soviet Union can be. As I said when addressing the Senate about this matter several weeks ago. soon after the Soviet policy was announced. this policy is "a remarkably oveit form of international blackmail by which the Soviet Union has placed a price tag on the freedom of thousands of its citizens. It is a reprehensible form of bondage. an affront to international standards of human decency. and a sad reminder that the Soviet Union has never wavered from a national policy of denying religious freedom to the citizens.
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