Mr. Speaker. many of my colleagues are aware of my personal involvement with Alexander and Paulina Paritsky and their two daughters. Dorina and Anna. who are one of the two Jewish families in Kharkov. the Soviet Union. Since the Paritsky family applied for exit visas in 1976. Alexander has been fired from his job at the Kharkov Institute of Metrology. and in August of this year was arrested for "antiSoviet agitation and propaganda." He currently is awaiting trial. Today. I learned that last week Soviet authorities threatened to take the two daughters from Mrs. Paritsky and approached 14yearold Dorina at school demanding that she denounce her father.