PROBLEM Leonid Brezhnev. consulting his notes. has informed several United States senators that there is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union. Those Jewish residents who wish to emigrate can do so. he indicated. and he said that 60.200 out of 61.000 applicants had received permission to go last year. On the surface. this sounded persuasiveas Mr. Brezhnev hoped it would prove to be. He urgently desires mostfavorednation tariff treatment from the United States. but this is stalled by a Senate amendment to ban such status to nations which restrict emigration. So Mr. Brezhnev was going all out to persuade those senators. But there are problems. For one thing. sources in Moscow and Israel can account -for only about 30.000not 60.200--Soviet Jews who actually emigrated last year. For another thing. several senatorsand thousands of other Americansare aware of cases such as that of Vitali Rubin. a Soviet citizen who is seeking to go to Israel and has not been permitted to do so. The plight of Mr.
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