President. today. along with Senator PERCY and 27 other cosponsors. I am submitting a concurrent resolution urging the Soviet Union to allow Ms. Ida Nudel to emigrate to Israel. Ida Nudel. a 48yearold Moscow economist. is known throughout the dissident movement as the "guardian angel" of Jewish political prisoners in Russia. For years Ms. Nudel. working out of her Moscow apartment. collected information about other dissidents sentenced to years in internal exile. sending them letters of encouragement. information about their families. food parcels. and other expressions of shared concern. She even knew the birthday of every Zionist prisoner in the various camps. and would send birthday greetings. realizing the value such a warm message might have. Since 1971 Ida Nudel has been applying for permission to emigrate to Israel. On each occasion that permission has been denied. These refusals only served to increase her determination and commitment to the cause of free emigration. In June of 1978. Ms.
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