The outcome of arrests is predetermined: To be charged is to be convicted. So. all over the Gulag of the Soviet prison system there are Jewish prisoners of conscience. whose only crime is the desire to leave a nation which has done its utmost. both officially and unofficially. to make them unwelcome and unwanted. The purpose of the resolution we are introducing today is twofold. On the one hand. it is vital that the recent dramatic drop in emigration permits be reversed. so that those Soviet Jews who wish to leave may do so. Over 51.000 people were allowed to depart in 1979. In 1982. only 2.688 people are allowed out.
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