Mr. President. Ida Nudel was arrested in June 1978 by the Soviet authorities and charged with "malicious hoeliganism" for committing the crime of lesecommunism: Wanting to emigrate to Israel. She had been applying for permission to leave the Soviet Union since 1971. Ida Nudel turned 49 on April 27. She has long been suffering from heart and kidney ailments for which she has been denied proper medical attention in Siberia. where she is serving a 4year sentence of exile. In an open letter to the Jerusalem Post on October 9. 1979. Ida Nudel wrote: Stop testing my powers of endurance.
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