By undertaking these activities. the Soviets are undermining world confidence in their reliability as a respectable and trustworthy partner in international relations and lending credence to assertions that the Soviet Communist system of government is bankrupt. both morally. politically. and economically. and cannot and should not be trusted. Mr. Speaker. only 499 Soviet Jews have been allowed to emigrate from the "workers paradise" this year. This number is far too low and is not representative of the number of Jews wishing to emigrate. I applaud the fact that Americans. including President Reagan. Secretary Shultz. and others. consistently raise this issue in their meetings with their Soviet counterparts. I urge the President to personally raise this important matter during his meetings in Geneva with CPSU General Secretary Gorbachev. Members of Congress will certainly continue to raise the issue and appeal to the Soviets to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate.e
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The Soviet Communist system is bankrupt morally, politically, and economically.