Mr. Speaker. as part of the 1983 Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jews. I will wish to bring to my colleagues attention the case of Vladimir Slepak. a wellknown Soviet dissident who repeatedly has been denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union to join his family in Israel. Since the early 1970s Vladimir Slepak has been known as a leading activist and spokesman for Soviet Jews trying to emigrate to Israel. He was among the first group of Soviet Jews to address petitions. letters. and appeals to the United Nations and. in June 1976. along with other human rights activists. joined the Helsinki Watch Group. During the 1970s. when the Slepaks lived in the center of Moscow. Vladimir became the unofficial liaison between the refusenik community and the Western World. Vladimir Slepak. his wife Mariya. and their two sons. Alexander and Leonid. first applied for permission to emigrate in April 1970. Their applica-
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