Today in my office I met with Alexander Lyakov who is currently on a hunger strike in solidarity with friends stuck in the Soviet Union. His friends. Lyudmila Nemtseva and Dmitry Marchenko. have begun an openended hunger strike out of their frustration regarding the Soviet Governments policy to refuse them permission to emigrate. Although I do not support their plan to fast till death. I understand and sympathize with their serious situation. Unfortunately. their story is one repeated by thousands of other Soviet citizens whohave been denied permission to emigrate. And the story of persecution and harassment is repeated throughout Eastern Europe. In Poland the authorities have clamped down on the labor movement by outlawing Solidarity.
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