It was a privilege for me to have been on that mission last August with Congressman GILMAN and Congressman DORNAN and to join with them in our efforts to focus the attention not only of the world but also of the Soviet officials on the pitiful plight of these brilliant. distinguished Soviet citizens who happen to share in common only one flaw. from the point of the Soviet Union: that is. that they were of the Jewish faith and they wanted to leave the Soviet Union and go to the land of their forefathers. I met last August with the distinguished members of the Soviet Government. along with my two colleagues. We met with Minister Paputin. who is in charge of matters of immigration and emigration. He gave me a personal assurance that he would review personally the status of Dr. Alexander Lerner. one of the Soviet Unions most brilliant scientific minds. and former chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences of the Soviet Academy of Science. who for 10 years now has languished outside of his profession. fired from the Academy of Sciences. fired from his other teaching and publishing posts. his wife and children unable to gain employment. unable to study at the universities.
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