Mr. Speaker. for several years now. this body has participated in a Call to Conscience Congressional Vigil for Soviet Jewry. Our constant efforts to keep the plights of hundreds of Soviet Jews before the public eye is one of the more productive avenues we have available to maintain pressure on the Soviet Government to grant emigration to these many good people. Today. I would like to bring to your attention the Khassin family. Gennady Khassin is a 44yearold mathematician living in Moscow with his wife Natasha and their two daughters. 17yearold Helen and 4yearold Judith. They first applied to emigrate to Israel in 1976. to be reunited with Mr. Khassins sister. and were refused. Since that time. Mr. Khassin has been dismissed from his teaching job at the university in Moscow. Repeated efforts to get their emigration request approved have been denied on the
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