Mr. Speaker. today we are considering House Concurrent Resolution 202 on Ida Nudels emigration to Israel. The resolution. based on the provisions of the Helsinki Final Act. calls upon the President. "acting directly or through the Secretary of State or other appropriate executive branch officials to continue to express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms. the opposition of the United States to the exile of Ida Nudel to Siberia." I am in strong support of this resolution and further commend the Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry. of which my wife. Judy. is a member. on their efforts to secure the release of Ida Nudel. Ida Nudel is presently the only female prisoner of Zion. Her ostensible crime was to hang a banner outside her Moscow flat which read: "KGB Give Me My Visa To Israel." On June 21. 1978 she was arrested for vandalism and malicious hooliganism. But during Idas trial she cried out that she was being tried not for hanging a banner. but for helping prisoners. Recently a group of former Soviet refuseniks and prisoners of Zion gathered from all over Israel to tell the story of Ida Nudel. because. as one of them explained. "there is no woman on earth we value more.
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