Speaker. a courageous woman most heroic woman. whose only crime may be silenced temporarily. but while is her desire for freedom. If we allow she is. there will be many of us to help this type of inhumane persecution to with the cause. While Idas struggle continue without protest. it will for freedom has been halted for the simply encourage the Soviets to inmoment. we in this Congress will con- crease their persecution of the thoutinue to call attention to her plight sands of Soviet Jews who seek to leave and we will remind civilized nations the Soviet Union. around the world that she. and count- I join my colleagues in wishing Ida less others have been continually har- Nudel a happy birthday under the assed and denied the right to emigrate painful circumstances and in sharing from the Soviet Union as guaranteed her hopes for freedom for herself and by the Helsinki accords. her fellow citizens.* Ida Nudels sentence of 4 years in Si- * Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker. I am beria for the dubious crime of display- participating in this special order with ing a banner from her balcony that a sense of pride and a sense of sadness. read: "KGB. give me my visa" should Today marks the 50th birthday of a be terminated. This woman. whose truly remarkable crusader for human only crime was to ask that a basic rightsIda Nudel. the only Jewish human right be respected. will receive woman now held in the Soviet Union my deepest commitment to help her as a "prisoner of conscience." and others who are being held against Ida Nudels only crime was to retheir will in the Soviet Union.* Ida Nuelsi o rimeos o re
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