I rise today to participate in the 1985 Congressional Call to to Conscience. I thank my colleague RUDY BOSCHWITZ for sponsoring this program. Our work with Soviet Jews is more crucial now than ever in the wake of falling emi. gration figures. Less than 500 Jews were allowed to emigrate in the first 5 months of this year. This represents a significant and frightening decrease compared to earlier emigration figures51.000 in 1979. It is disheartening to those who live in freedom to hear the story I am about to tell. Even more upsetting is the fact that this is only one case in thousands.
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