Mr. Speaker. I recently received a report entitled "Jewish Emigration From the U.S.S.R.." written by Elie Valk. director of the Soviet Jewry Research Bureau of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. I would like to bring some of the pertinent facts in that report to the attention of my colleagues. In 1979. 51.320 Jews left Russia to join family and friends in other parts of the world. This was the largest number to date of "refuseniks" that the Russians permitted to emigrate in any one year. This trend. however. has seen a sharp decline since November 1979. In May 1980. 1.976 Jews left Russia compared to 4.163 in May 1979. representing a decrease of 52.5 percent.
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