Mr. Speaker. today in the Soviet Union there are hundreds of thousands of Jews who have applied for exit visas. and who have been refused these visas. At the same time they are being persecuted because of their desire to emigrate. Aleksandr Yampolski is one of these refuseniks. After making known his desire to leave Russia and settle in Israel he lost his Job as an electronic engineer and has been forced to labor as a Janitor in Leningrads Kirov Sports Stadium. The "official" reason for the Governments refusal to allow Aleksandr Yampolski to have an exit visa involves security considerations. But he has not worked in his field of electronics for 8 years since he first made his application and any knowledge he may have retained must certainly be obsolete now. There is. therefore. no real reason for the Soviet Union to keep Aleksandr Yampolski under its control and to deny him the freedom to go to Israel.
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