Mr. Speaker. I rise as a participant in the "Call to Conscience Vigil. 1981." joining my concerned colleagues in bringing to the attention of the House the plight of Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. Today. I would like to again speak about Prof. Nohim Meiman. a Soviet Jew and a mathematical scientist who has been actively seeking an exit visa since 1974. Professor Meimans case is typical of the harassment and threats to which Soviet scientists have been subjected in their struggle for basic human rights. In 1935. Nohim Meiman received the highest degree awarded in the Soviet Union. doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. He is widely known for his work with quantum field theory and analytical function theory and he worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow until his dismissal. When Professor Meiman decided to emigrate from the U.S.S.R.. his application was refused on the grounds that he "possessed state secrets." In a letter to Leonid Brezhnev. Meiman explained that the only time in his career when he dealt with classified subjects was in the years 1948 to 1955. when he worked on defenserelated theoretical calculations for the Institute of Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences. Since the research had been conducted more than 25 years earlier. and had then been published in widely circulated journals. it could hardly be characterized as "state secrets." Meiman appealed. "I declare categorically and can prove
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