Mr. Bolshakov asks: "How can there be any question of antiSemitism in the U.S.S.R.-a country where the propaganda of racism and national enmity. including antiSemitismis forbidden by law?" The facts reveal this outrageous claim for what it is. Recently. the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry announced that in the course of 1983 only 1.314 Jews were permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union. This is the lowest level of Jewish emigration in 20 years. and it represents a 98percent decline from the 51.320 Jews who left the Soviet Union in 1979. I would like to have printed in the RECORD at this point a table detailing the emigration levels for the months of 1983 in comparison to previous years. The table follows:
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