It is entirely fitting that this vigil be entitled "The Spirit of Helsinki. 1980." Specifically. I -would like to remind the House of Representatives and the country of the ongoing plight of Mr. Yakov Rekhenko Karmanitsky of Moscow. Mr. Karmanitsky and his mother have. been trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union o Join his sister in Israel for the past 8 years. Their applications to emigrate have been refused on the dubious grounds that Mr. Karmanltsky supposedly served in the Soviet Army between 1969 and 1971.- Anything we inAmerica can do to help reunite this family must be encouraged. Again.
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