Mr. Speaker. yesterdays New York Times carried an article by Anthony Lewis wherein Mr. Lewis ably points out the great disparity between the continuing arbitrary treatment of Jews seeking to emigrate from Russia and the assurances of Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. I. along with others who sent telegrams protesting the treatment of Mr. Yevgeni Levich. son of a famous Soviet scientist. was informed by the State Department that: We regret we are not in a position to intervene directly in cases where Soviet citizens wish to go to third countries. as with the Leviches. The administration -has responded similarly to other pleas.
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