Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 385. expressing the sense of the Congress that the Government of the Soviet Union should allow Yuri Balovlenkov to emigrate. which was introduced by Congresswoman BARBARA MIKuLsKi. I wish to commend the gentlewoman from Maryland for her humanitarian action. She has acted quickly to bring the tragic situation of a husband and wife who are devoted to each other but who are separated a long distance from each other. to our attention. Elena resides in the United States and Uri in the Soviet Union. Learning of her husbands hunger strike in protest against the Soviet authorities refusal to let him emigrate. she decided to travel with her small child to Moscow to be with Yuri. But Yuri has persisted in the rightness of his cause and has continued to fast. I understand that he is now paralyzed and that the shadow of death is Just around the corner. Unless this man is granted the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. he will surely die. It is not often that such a tragic situation of the forced separation of husband and wife touches us here in Congress. But it serves to highlight the anguish that many in the world suffer.
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