With us were Dr. Yelena Bonner. wife of physicist Andrei Sakharov. Ida Milgrom. mother of Anatoly Shcharansky. and Alexander Lerner. who have all seen firsthand what the Soviet system can do to those who wish to escape or to criticize it. Mr. Speaker. during the past year the number of Jews permitted to leave the Soviet Union has declined by 55 percent. Since 1977. emigration has dropped 73 percent. New administrative roadblocks have been erected to reduce this number even more. Some of the members of the informal group we met with have been waiting 10 years to emigrate. only to
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