That is why I am here. I am here to join in the chorus of voices rising to oppose this terrible injustice. I am here to add to those who say we will not stop until this persecution stops and until Soviet Jews are free to leave. 1984 marks the lowest point in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union in the past two decades. Only 896 Soviet Jews were permitted to leave the country last year. as compared with more than 51.000 in 1979. 1984 also produced an accelerated campaign to isolate Jewish refusenik activists from their supporters In the West. and we are witnessing an increasing number of incidences of the interruption of mail and telephone communication with our Soviet friends. according tc the teachers we visited with recently. We are learning of the growing harassment of Western travelers in the Soviet Union by authorlties there as well.
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