Mr. Speaker. todays special order points out that yet another year has passed in the movement to secure the human rights of Soviet Jews. Their desire is a simple one: to emigrate from the Soviet Union in order to live full lives as human beings and as Jews in freedom. The leaders of the Soviet Union know no limit in their effort to break the spirit of these people. But we know that the refuseniks and prisoners of conscience will not give up their struggle. This past year we have witnessed further difficulties for the Jewish community in the Soviet Union. In 1983. only 1.314 people were permitted to leave. continuing the decline which began in 1980. It is abundantly clear that we must redouble our efforts if we are to return even to the 1979 level when 51.000 Jews were permitted to emigrate. Mr. Speaker. these figures alone do not reveal the hardships facing Soviet Jews.
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