Mr. President. ed that in 1982. 200.000 to 400.000 the amendment I am offering ex- Soviet citizens wanted to emigrate. presses the sense of the Congress that which includes many of the 2 million Voice of America. Radio Liberty and Jews living in that country. Radio Free Europe are to be com- The Voice of America and Radio mended for their news and editorial Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been coverage of the appalling increase of steadily reporting on this appalling religious persecution in the Soviet phenomena. For instance. VOA Union. including the plummeting August and September coverage of levels of Jewish emigration. The this religious persecution include reamendment then encourages these ports on the committee of concerned networks tp intensify their efforts in scientist appeals on behalf of a Soviet this regard. refuznik. the Soviet crackdown in The antiSemitic campaign the Latvia on believers. Anatoli ShcharSoviet Union is expanding rapidly. as anskys plight. the appeal on behalf of demonstrated by the April 1983 forma- a Jewish rights activist at the artifical tion of the statesanctioned "AntiZi- intelligence conference. religious onist Committee." This committee. reawakening in the Soviet Union. and which has been highly publicized by the World Council of Churches featurthe staterun press. states its aim as ing religious persecution in Afghani"exposing reactionary and aggressive stan.
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