Mr. Speaker. this month President Reagan will meet with Secretary Gorbachev. This meeting gives us an important opportunity to raise the issue of human rights and convey to the Soviets our concern about their treatment of the refuseniks. the Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate in search of a better life. Four hundred thousand Soviet citizens have unsuccessfully asked for permission to emigrate. Often the Government has responded by harassing or incarcerating them. In spite of this intimidation. howev. er. many refuseniks persist in their at. tempts to emigrate legally. In particular. I would like to bring atten. tion to one Leningrader Nadezhda Frad. kova. for whom my wife Janethrough the Congressional Spouses Committee of 21has deep concern. Nedezhda. now 38. is a mathematical linguist who has endured two hunger strikes. job loss. and Incarceration in her attempt to emigrate legally to Israel. Nadezhda first applied for the right to emigrate in 1977. Permission was refused. apparently because her father works in the Soviet Space Programan inexplicable reason since until recently she had had no contact with him since early childhood.
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