I. for one. would like to think the deteriorating relationship between our two countries will not spill over Into the area of human rights and the treatment of Soviet Jews. I would like to feel there is hope for continued progress to end the suffering of these people at the hands of their Soviet oppressors. And I am buoyed that. amid the bad news of recent days. there are good signs as welL For one thing. despite rising world tensions. 1979 did turn out to be a record year for emigration of Soviet Jews. More than 51.000 Jews were permitted to leave the U.S.S.R. from January to December. And I am not convinced that 1980. despite its shaky start. will not turn out to be a better year still.
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