I had the privilege of joining four of my colleagues and over 800 residents of Long Island at the Annual Freedom Dinner of the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry. The name and the plight of Anatoly Shcharansky were cited by several speakers as an example of the horrors unleashed by the Soviet Government upon its Jewish citizens. Over the past year. the flow of emigrants from the Soviet Union has been reduced to a trickle and increased pressure and brutality are the price for those who state their intention to leave. As we mark this sad anniversary of Soviet inhumanity. I ask once again that all who have the honor and the freedom to speak in this Chamber. join in the struggle to help those who are deprived of the rights we guard for our own citizens.
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