I would like to present another chapter in this continuing tragedy. Isaac Shkolnik. a citizen of the Ukranian SSR. is a husband. father. and of the Jewish faith. He was arrested in July 1972. after expressing his wishes to emigrate to Israel and has been detained since then. He was originally charged with "slandering the Soviet State" and sentenced to 10 yearslater changed to 7 and charged with "industrial espionage." Since this man has worked only as a laborer. a miner. and a mechanicall in unskilled or semiskilled capacitiesit seems unlikely that he possessed either the training or the opportunity to commit "industrial espionage." We have a chance in this Congress to create an awareness on the part of the Soviet Union so that people there. whether Christians. Jewish. agnostic. or atheist can live in peace with their respective religious beliefs.
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