Im pleased to once again join with my colleagues to speak out on an issue that is of deep personal concern to methe plight of the Soviet Jews. As many of you already know. the month of April brought some good news to this longsuffering community. The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union reached its highest level in nearly 2 years166 were allowed to leave last month. This is. of course. an encouraging sign and perhaps a signal from the Soviets that they intend to do better in the area of human rights. I know. though. that I speak for everyone here when I say that it is not enough. We would like to see many. many more exit visas granted and we would like to see this trend continued until all who wish to leave have been permitted to do so. While there is. for the first time in a long time. reason to be somewhat optimistic. we must not let that blind us to the true situation in the Soviet Union. We cannot forget those that are being left behind while a lucky few are allowed to leave.
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