Speech #970143494

I am greatly honored to participate in this years Congressional Vigil for Soviet Jews. and I wish to commend my colleague from New York for his leadership in this important matter. This is a time when we can voice our deep and continuing concern over the oppression and harassment of Jews and others living in the Soviet Union. We join to protest the growing attempts to destroy the struggling cultural movement and the increasing curtailment of exit visas granted to those wishing to emigrate. March 15 is a particularly important date during this vigil. it marks the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of Anatoly Shcharansky. Mr.