Its passage today will be a clear message of our continuing dedication to the principles of justice and human rights- a message not only to Soviet Jews but to oppressed people everywhere. The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews has called current conditions the "bleakest period for Soviet Jewry" in more than a decade. Less than 400 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union last November. Four thousand emigrated just 2 years previous. There has been increased harassment. arrest. trial. and internal exiling of Jewish activists. There has been steppedup assaults on Jewish cultural and scientific groups in an effort to destroy the Jewish cultural movement.
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