It Is gratifying for me to have your support ... I am sure you know the best way to help. I hope that you know some way for help for me and my family so we can get exit visas. It seems to me that it Is important to write letters to Soviet authorities and ask them to give the exit visas ... Last. I want to report on the case of Dr. Alexander Luntz. a scientist in Moscow with whom I spoke on the telephone last January. For a time his communications were cut off. during the hunger strike led by David Azbel. He still has no exit visa for himself and his family. Friends who have spoken with him since my last conversation tell me that conditions in Moscow are deteriorating for the Jewish people who want to emigrate. The number of exit visas is declining. and the newspapers falsely report that the number of applications for visas is declining. Bureaucratic roadblocks are thrown in the way of applicants constantly. Dr. Luntz reports that the authorities require that applicants produce an invitation from family members already living in Israel for the Soviet Jews to join them there. Apparently. such letters of invitation are routinely confiscated. especially for the younger men and women. The younger people who apply to emigrate are also being drafted into the armed forces at a higher rate. Mr. President.
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