Yet Gregory Gimpelsons hands are bound. He cannot ask for reinvestigation of his case. he cannot prove the truth. All he can do is wait. not for a fair consideration of his case. but for a purely arbitrary decision that grants him the highly desired visa enabling him to join his wife and his son after years of painful separation. the separation they have had to experience from day to day. It is for the sake of these individual cases that we have to continue to speak out against the violation of human rights by the Soviet Unionthat we have to talk about human rights in absolute terms rather than in terms of specific numbers.*