June 27. arrival at the American Embassy in Moscow approaches. I want to raise my voice along with my colleagues in the hopes that a resolution of their confinement might soon be found. The seven members of these two courageous families went to our Embassy in 1978 in the hopes of furthering their desire to emigrate to the United States after receiving an invitation from a church in Selma. Ala.. to come to this country. A group of Christians in Selma. led by Pastor Cecil Williamson. had received word that these faithful believers had been trying since 1963 to escape persecution by emigrating. However. there have been few Christian emigrees ever and none since 1975 to accept invitations from foreign citizens to leave the U.S.S.R. The members of the Vashchenko and Chmykhalov families have suffered extensive and cruel persecution. including the alleged abduction and killing of an adopted child.
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