Speaker. I would like to take the opportunity of the Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jews to once again beseech the Soviet Government to uphold its pledge as a signatory of the Helsinki Final Act. Last year marked the lowest level of emigration in over a decade. although not because most who want to leave have already emigrated. as the Soviets maintain. My fellow Members of Congress. thousands of organizations and countless citizens know otherwise. It is our hope that the Soviet Union. under the leadership of Konstantin Chernenko. will demonstrate some willingness to uphold its pledge to guarantee human rights by reconsidering applications for emigration. I am particularly concerned about Tatyana Ulanovsky who. along with her ailing mother Raisa. has been denied permission to join her son and only other living relative. Lev. to move to Israel.
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