Mr. Speaker. reserving the right to object. I rise in support of House Resolution 398. expressing the sense of the House that Alexsei Murzhenko and Yuri Fiodorov should be released from prison and permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union. These two men. as our colleague from New York. Mr. McGRATH. explained in testimony submitted to the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations. became friends in 1962 while in prison and upon their release found themselves confronted by constant harassment and no opportunity for meaningful employment. In 1970. Murzhenko and Fiodorov. along with several others. planned to seize an empty airliner on the ground in Leningrad in an effort to leave the Soviet Union.
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