Soviet leaders were apparently intensifying their harassment of Jewish activists in the U.S.S.R. Last December. at an unauthorized news conference in Moscow. Jewish leaders documented a new wave of arrests and new obstacles to free emigration. One of the many victims of the Soviets prohibitive emigration policies is Prof. Veniamin "Benjamin" Levich of Moscow University. Professor Levich is an outstanding electrochemist who has been trying to leave the Soviet Union since the spring of 1972. To date. his visa has been refused. and he and his family live under a growing fear of arrest. The Soviet Academy of Sciences. of which Professor Levich is a corresponding member. will do nothing to help him. It is up to us to exert whatever public pressure we can to help him win his fight to emigrate. In support of his case. a group of scientists and engineers in electrochemistry and allied fields recently signed a petition to the Soviet Government urging freedom for Professor Levich. Meanwhile. I have received from Dr. Yuval Neeman. president of Tel Aviv University. a list of Soviet Jewish scientists who are currently seeking to emigrate to Israel. I ask unanimous consent that both of these documents be printed in the RECORD.
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