Mr. Speaker. I rise today to take part in the "Call to Conscience" Congressional Vigil for Soviet Jewry. in the hope that my efforts here in Congress can help Svetlana Levina who wishes to emigrate to the free world. Svetlana. who is a physician. and her son applied for permission to emigrate in March 1978. At that time. Svetlana was 42 years old. yet incredibly. the Soviet authorities denied her request because she did not have her mothers permission. Svetlanas parents were divorced many years ago and her mother refuses to see her. Now the Soviet Union. which has done so much to damage family life. is denying this woman and her son the opportunity to pursue a peaceful and free family life.
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