Solidarity Sunday will be attended by thousands of Americans from across the country. This years gathering will be of special importance. for the Soviet authorities have in the past year stepped uo their campaign of harassment and intirnidation of Soviet Jews. Despite the commitments undertaken by the Soviets and Helsinki and in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate has again been seriously curtailed. Whereas 52.000 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1979. only 21.000 received permission in 1980. a reduction of 58 percent. During the first 3 months of 1981. this rate of emigration has been still further reduced. In March. for instance. only 996 Jews received permission to go abroad so that they might practice their religion as they wish. The denial of emigration. alas. is not the whole of the problem. Within the Soviet Union itself. the officially sanctioned campaign of antiSemitism continues unabated. Publications of all kinds. including childrens magazines. attribute the failings of the Soviet system to imagined Jewish.
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The failings of the Soviet system are attributed to imagined Jewish conspiracies.