Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970018491

House Concurrent Resolution 50. as amended. introduced by my colleague. Mr. FISH. expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should provide proper medical care for Viktor Brallovsky and permit. him and his family to emigrate to Israel. and urges the President to protest the continued suppression of human rights in the Soviet Union. Viktor Brailovsky. a prominent computer scientist. has been harassed by the Soviet authorities for years because of his active work on behalf of independent scholarship and free thought in the Soviet Union. Among his other accomplishments. Mr. Brailovsky organized the Moscow Seminar for Jewish Scientists and published the underground Jewish journal. "Jews in the U.S.S.R." He also led a group of over 230 other Soviet Jewish refuseniks in an appeal to President Brezhnev for emigration of Soviet Jews. Mr. Brailovsky is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. and a member of the American and British mathematical societies.
Keywords matched
emigrate emigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
DON BONKER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1981-04-02
Speech ID
970018491
Paragraph
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