Mr. Speaker. I rise in full support of this special order on behalf of the thousands of Soviet Jews who have been denied emigration from a country which punishes them for their religious beliefs. derides them as less than equal citizens. and denigrates their values. This is a chance to recognize and remember those who are imprisoned. for example. the four refusenik Hebrew teachers. Muscovite Aleksandr Kholmiansky. Yakov Levin. Yakov Gorodetsky. and Yuli Edelstein who were recently taken into custody. And there are the families. the family of Alexander Khozin. the family of Tashpulat and Lelia Katanov. and so many others who suffer from separation and anxiety for their loved ones who have sought permission to emigrate. This week each of our Presidential candidates will sit down face to face with Foreign Minister Gromyko to discuss the relationship between our two nations. The issues before them cast their shadows over much of the world: The nuclear arms race. the tensions between our two countries. the military presence of the superpowers in Europe.
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