Last Thursday. October 24. Volvovsky was sentenced to 3 years of hard labor. His only crime was his desire to live in Israel and to teach classes in Judaism. The case of Leonid Volvovsky sharply contradicts recent reports of potential improvements on the part of the Soviet authorities. It suggests that rather than liberal emigration policies. we are facing the threat of a harder Soviet line after the Geneva summit. This will depend In part on the Presidents resolve and on the priority assigned to human rights as the summit draws near. Just this week. I sent a letter to the Nobel Institute in Norway. asking that Anatoly Shcharansky be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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