Anatoly Shcharansky will die. adding still more innocent blood on the hands and consciences of Soviet officials. Mr. Speaker. evidence of further crackdowns on the part of Soviet authorities toward Soviet Jews is found by examining emigration figures in the beginning of this year. In 1981. 9.500 Soviet Jews were permitted to emigrate to Israel. During the past 2 months of 1982. only 573 have been permitted to emigrate. At this rate. a total number of only 3.000 emigrations to Israel can be projected for this year. a drop of over twothirds from 1981. It is clear that the Soviet Union has chosen to embark on a new. crueler path of denying basic human liberties to Soviet Jews. This is an outrage which the United States must condemn in no uncertain terms.
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