Mr. Speaker. I address the House today on the issue of Soviet Jewry. a continuing tragedy whose dimensionk have not. as of yet. been substantially mitigated by Mr. Gorbachevs rise to power. According to Israeli officials. 97 people received visas in March of this year. only marginally more than in most recent months. Ths stateorganized crackdown on Jewish culture persists. Officially sanctioned antiSemitism has intensified to the point that the Soviet mass media. including newspapers and television. regularly malign Jews in tones reminiscent of Czarist pogroms. For instance. a recent Tass article claimed that "Zionists" had aided the ascendency of the Third Reich.