Mr. Speaker. the policies that the United States has pursued to encourage human rights have not been as effective as we would like them to be or as they should be. In the late 1970s. Soviet officials first crippled the Soviet Jewish emigration movement when the numbers of Jews allowed to emigrate began to decline. In 1984. Soviet authorities strove to paralyze the Jewish emigration movement further. Soviet Jewish emigration dropped to an all time low of 896. My adopted refusenik. Dr. Yuri Tarnopolskys plight is similar to the Soviet Jewish refuseniks who were unlucky enough to be included in the "896".
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