Their health has been severely affected as a result of a lack of medical care and inadequate nutrition. Today. they are the only two involved in the Leningrad hijacking affair to remain in prison. The U.S. Government was partly responsible for the release in 1979 of some of the others involved in that incident and in February 1981. the last Soviet Jew involved was released and allowed to emigrate to Israel. Mr. Speaker. lest the Soviet authorities believe that the American people have forgotten the last two of these individuals. the House should adopt House Resolution 398. supporting their release from prison and calling on the Soviet authorities to let them leave the country.
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