President. the plight of the Russian Jews has generated a human rights cause celebr6. The world community has focused its attention on basic human rights violations in the Iron Curtain countries and particularly the Soviet Union. As a result of a decade and more of hard work. an untold number of Russian and Eastern bloc Jews have been relieved of suffering and have been allowed to emigrate. And while that campaign has obviously not been a total success. and must be both sustained and intensified. it has produced resultsduring 1979. a projected 50.000 Jewish dissidents will be permitted to leave the Soviet Union. Recently. however. religious freedom and the right to emigrate free from government interference has become an issue for Christians. too. To date though their campaign for basic human rights has not reached proportions anywhere near that of the Jewish campaign. That is tragic. for their suffering has been equally great. and their needs remain equally desperate.
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