Madam President. I join in commending Senate Concurrent Resolution 69. urging the U.S.S.R. to allow Ida Nudel to emigrate. to my Senate colleagues. Ida Nudel is one of the best known and best loved of Soviet refuseniks and prisoners of conscience. After years of attempting herself to emigrate to Israel. and working to help other longtime refusenicks and Soviet prisoners of conscience. Ida Nude) was arrested. tried. and convicted of hooliganism for hanging banners from her Moscow balcony calling attention to Soviet persecution of her. She is now completing a sentence of internal exile in remote Siberia. Soviet authorities now have an opportunity finally allowing her to Join her sister in Israel.
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