Speaker. I wish to join my colleagues in expressing solidarity with concerned individuals throughout the world who are today observing a Day of World Protest for Ida Nudel. a Soviet Jew who has been serving a 4year sentence in exile in Siberia. The formal charge against her is "malicious hooliganism." but her real crime is that Ida Nudel has sought for almost 11 years to obtain a visa to leave the Soviet Union in order to join her sister is Israel. Last year. a mere 9.249 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union. compared to 51.000 in 1979. In this time of tense relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. the release of Ida Nudel would be seen by all as a welcome gesture of good will. and a step toward improved relations between our two nations.