Mr. Speaker. the news that Yelena Bonner. wife of Soviet dissi. dent Andrei Sakharov. was issued a tempo. rary visa to receive much needed medical treatment in the West captured our Na. tions media headlines and raised our con. sciousness to the absurdity of the situation. This news does not belong in the headlines. Yelena Bonner should have been issued this visa upon learning of her eye ailment. It is a tragedy that the Soviet Union con. tinues to place a higher priority on keeping its citizens within the nations borders than on affording them basic human decencies. But we can learn from the suffering of Mrs.