The effect of this amendment will be to provide a life line encouragement and support for the Jewish community in the Soviet Union by increasing the amount Radio Liberty broadcasts that addresses their special needs. The timing for this could not be better. We all know of the desperate situation facing those Soviet Jews wish to emigrate. and the callous disregard shown these people by the Soviet authorities. Many of us are also aware of the stepup in harrassment of Soviet Jewish activists by Soviet officials. With these continuing low levels of emigration. and with this new harassment comes a special need to reassure these brave people of the continuing support of their friends in the West. Several months ago I Joined a number of my constituents on a pier on the Atlantic Ocean in south Florida. Gathered there on that pier we took two of those large water bottles of the kind you find in offices which had been filled with hundreds of letters addressed to Soviet Jews and threw the bottles into the ocean.
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