Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the distinguished chairman of the Humans Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee for his help with this resolution. and for the fine work he has been doing for some time on behalf of Ida Nudel and other Soviet citizens who wish desperately to emigrate from that country. I know that many of my colleagues are deeply concerned with helping Ida Nudel. She has been struggling to leave the Soviet Union for 11 years. and was released from her 4year exile in Siberia only last March. Since. then. she had endured continual harassment and abuse by Soviet officials as she attempted once again to begin the process of applying for an emigration visa to join her sister. Elena Friedman. in Israel. Ida Nudel has spent most of her time since her March 1982 release from internal exile in search of a place to live. She was denied a residence permit for Moscow which had previously been her home on the basis that she had not occupied her apartment while she was in exile in Siberia. Without a residence permit. she could not apply for a visa to emigrate to Israel. nor could she obtain needed medical tieatment in a hospital for her heart condition. After leaving Moscow. Ida attempted to take up residence in Riga. the capital of Latvian S.S.R.
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