We must therefore take this opportunity to remind the President that the Geneva summit cannot be a meaningful one without a frank discussion of the continuing human rights violations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. We should not be taken in by reports of improvements In this area. Amidst worldwide rumors of the liberalization of Soviet emigration and human rights policies. the plight of Leonid Volvovsky. the newest Jewish prisoner of conscience. is all but forgotten. Volvovsky. a 40yearold electrical engineer and Talmud scholar from Gorky. was arrested on June 26. 1985. He was charged with article 70 of the RSFSR. antiSoviet agitation and propaganda.
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