Speaker. I would like to take this time to reaffirm my support for Ida Nudel. probably the most outstanding prisoner of conscience who is incarcerated in the Soviet Union today. She has been sentenced to 4 years of exile in the wastelands of Siberia for hanging a banner on her apartment balcony which said. "KGB. give me my visa." The continued imprisonment of Ida Nudel and many other prisoners of conscience. coupled with the systematic harassment of the many hundreds of their families not only violates the Helsinki agreement. a pact that the Soviets initiated and promoted. but also serves as a harsh reminder that a climate of suppression of basic freedoms still remains in the Soviet Union. Even though Ida has been removed from Soviet society. this has not satisfied the government authorities. They are currently conducting a campaign of slander against her in the newspapers.