Speaker. for 5 years now the Communists in Moscow have cruelly denied the request of an American citizen to leave the Soviet Union. Since 1975. Abe Stolar and his wife and son have sought permission to emigrate to Israel. but in direct contravention of the provisions of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe signed by the U.S.S.R.. they have been refused--even at one point when they were about to board their flight out of the country. It was for this reason that I have contacted Mr. Alfred Moses. special adviser to the President. to ask him to bring the Presidents attention to this matter so that the resources of our country and our government can be brought to bear on urging the communist authorities to allow the Stolar family to emigrate. I call the attention of my colleagues to an article on the sad plight of the Stolar family which appeared some years ago in the Chicago Tribune. as well as one of the letters I have written during the last 5 years to Soviet officials and a copy of the reply I received:
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