R.S.F.S.R.. U.S.S.Rhis wife and two children have been trying to leave the Soviet Union since 1972. I am deeply concerned not only with the extreme difficulties that the Fradkins face in acquiring exit visas. but also with the human injustice that Jews are continually subjected to now in the Soviet Union. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the Helsinki accords of 1975. the Soviet Union pledged to "facilitate freer movement and contracts * * * among persons * * *" in their nation. I believe that the U.S.S.R. has violated its word by denying hundreds of thousands of Jewish citizens the right to leave. The Soviet Union also agreed to "deal in a positive humanitarian spirit with applications of persons who wish to be reunited with members of their family." However. continued refusal of Soviet emigration authorities to freely issue exit visas to Jewish refuseniks and others who wish to emigrate demonstrates to me that the U.S.S.R. has deliberately decided not to abide by the
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