Mr. Speaker. I rise today to thank my colleagues who cosigned my letter to Mikhail Gorbachev asking that he give an exit visa to Ida Nudel immediately so that she may join her family in Israel. Ida Nudel is a Jewish economist who has been trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel since 1971. She is now critically ill with a form of cancer for which the prognosis is not good. Her sister Ilana. her only living relative. resides in Israel with Ilanas husband and child. Ms. Nudel has tried many times to obtain an exit visa. For her efforts. she was arrested in 1978. convicted and exiled to Siberia for 4 years. She now lives outside of Moscow.
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