Mr. President. I recently cosigned a letter with several of my colleagues to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin expressing our desire that Ida Nudel. a Soviet refusenik. be allowed to emigrate to Israel now that she has completed her 4year sentence of exile in Siberia. Ida Nudel. a heroic fighter for human rights. has repeatedly been denied permission to emigrate to Israel and join her only living relatives. She first applied for permission to emigrate in 1971 with her sister. Illana. Illana received permission. Ida did not. In 1978. after a frustrating 7 years. Ida joined a protest of women dissidents by displaying a banner from her balcony which read. "KGB. give me my visa." She was subsequently arrested and exiled to the remote Siberian village of Kirovsheino. As Senators know. conditions are such that daily life is almost unbearable. and as a result Idas health has deteriorated severely. In addition. local citizens abuse her almost daily for being an exile in Siberia.
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