Senator LAxaLT and I. along with 96 of our Senate colleagues. wrote to President Reagan. Secretary Shultz and Ambassador Dobrynin of the U.S.S.R. We were protesting the abridgment of human rights in the Soviet Union. and drawing attention to the plight of Dr. losif Begun. an engineer and Hebrew teacher in Moscow who has sought unsuccessfully since 1971 to emigrate to Israel. The Soviet Union has characterized him as a criminal. What are Beguns crimes? That he taught Hebrew. that he studied the cultural history of the Jewish people. that he wanted to emigrate to Israel. that his fiance owned books and materials in Russian. Hebrew. and English about the history and culture of the Jews. All of these activities are protected under the Helsinki Final Act and other covenants which the Soviet Union has solemnly pledged to uphold.
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