I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 272 expressing the sense of this body that the Soviet Union has unfairly and unjustly exiled a great man. Dr. Andrei Sakharov. one of the outspoken critics of repression in the Soviet Union. has been removed to a city 250 miles from Moscow where no foreigners are allowed to enter. and no contact with the West can be maintained. I remember with tremendous clarity a day in August 1975. when I met this troubled man in his Moscow apartment. Anatoly Shcharansky. the tireless defender of the rights of Jews to emigrate. served as my guide. Dr. Sakharov expressed with remarkable vigor his conviction that the role of Christians in helping Soviet Jews can be immense.
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