Months pass when he is not heard from. when no one is allowed to visit him. In his last letter he says. "I would like to dream of our reuniting in Jerusalem but I need all my energies just to survive as a human being." Since the signing of the accords. Soviet policy on Jewish emigration has been a roller coaster: from a peak of 50.000 visas In 1979. the year before the Moscow Olympics. to a trickle of a few hundred a year now. But there has been no Inconsistency about suppressing any activity on behalf of the Helsinki accords. It is as if the Soviet Union recognizes what we too must understandthat there is more here than just a question of human rights.
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