Speaker. "The Congressional Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet Jewry" reminds us all of the sufferings of so many men and women unable to determine their own destiny or to live with their families in the place of their choosing. Id like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to this years chairman. the Honorable LAWRENCE COUGHLIN. for organizing this important demonstration of support for Soviet Jews. At present. there are over 400.000 Soviet Jews who desperately want to emigrate but who are repeatedly denied their freedom. I wish to address my remarks to the case of Victor Brailovsky. a prisoner of conscience who. over the past dozen years. has weathered isolation. condemnation. ostracism. and repeated denials of the freedom he and his wife Irina so desperately need. The plight of Victor and Irina Brailovsky represents but one frustratingly sad story amidst vast numbers of fellow refuseniks imprisoned behind the intolerance of Soviet policy.
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