Mr. Speaker. on this date. I would like to ask my colleagues to pause for a moment and reflect with me on the unjust imprisonment of a Soviet Lituanian seaman whose crime was to seek asylum in our country. Simas Kudirka was imprisoned 3 years ago on November 23. in Soviet Russia. after he jumped from his fishing trawler onto the USS Vigilant. a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. He was returned to his ship by the American authorities. and has been neither seen nor heard from since. We were informed. however. that his attempts gained him a prison sentence in Russia.
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