They know the hard truth that the Soviet freedoms they seek exist in Soviet and internationally recognized legal documents. but not in the living world. Soviet authorities. after 11 years. must finally do what is right. They must recognize the Kosharovskys right to emigrate and give them the freedom to leave the Soviet Union for Israel. The world protests the Soviet Governments increasingly restrictive emigration policy. The dwindling numbers of Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate is a testimony to the ferocity with which Soviet authorities insist on a policy of injustice. The Soviet Government must heed the protests of the free world. In the United States. we value the principles of freedom of religion. of thought and consciencewe live by them and for them. The Soviet Government claims that it also honors these principles. but it has failed to demonstrate that claim in the case of Yuli Kosharovsky and his family. and thousands of others. Yuli Kosharovsky. admired "teacher of teachers." has waited long enough. House Resolution 269 expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union permit the Kosharovskys to emigrate to Israel and that the Soviet Government cease its intolerable practice of systematic persecution and denial of basic rights to Soviet Jews. Today. we call upon the Soviet Union to free the Kosharovsky familythe inviolability of human rights and the universal cause of freedom demand it.*
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