Mr. Speaker. may I commend my distinguished colleague from Maryland. Representative BARNES. for reserving the time today so that we may speak out on a matter of great concern. With the tenth anniversary of the Leningrad trials approaching. it is most appropriate to voice our never relenting support for the three remaining prisoners. and urge their immediate release. Having been repeatedly denied exit visas for Israel. Yosif Mendelevich. Alexei Murzhenko. and Yuri Federov. among others. planned to get aboard an empty plane. fly it to Sweden. leave It there. and proceed to Israel. However. neither the plan nor the plane ever got off the groundthey were arrested at Smolny Airport. near Leningrad. on June 15. 1970. without ever having set foot on the aircraft.