Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 304. expressing the sense of Congress that Yelena Bonner should be allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union to seek medical treatment and urging the President to protest continued Soviet mistreatment of Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner. his wife. As reported in the press over the last several days. Andrei Sakharov. world renowned physicist and Nobel Peace laureate now in exile in Gorky. has initiated a hunger strike in an attempt to compel Soviet authorities to drop charges against his wife Yelena Bonner. and to grant her an exit visa for the purpose of receiving urgently needed medical care. According to the New York Times of last Wednesday. May 9.
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