The noisy stranger and I were sentenced to thirteen days of arrest at the trial. but he managed to disappear somewhere even before my verdict was read. He did not serve the punishment term. In November 1981. the House of Representatives passed a resolution which I introduced condemning the harassment of the Kosharovsky family and calling upon the Soviets to permit their emigration. Mr. Kosharovsky and his family have also been the subject of numerous letters to Soviet officials urging them to grant exit visas. Last May the six Members of the House and six Senators who serve on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe cosigned a letter to Chairman Chernenko urging him to review the Kosharovskys application In a positive and humanitarian spirit. Most recently. Mr. Speaker. I have again introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should permit the emigration of Yuli Kosharovsky and his immediate family to Israel. I can only hope that with the improving relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and continued congressional pressure. this family and the literally thousands of other refuseniks will at long last realize their dream of living in Israel. Again.
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