President. we in Congress and all who support human rights cannot be lulled into thinking that the fight is over. The fight for Soviet Jews and. in fact. for religious freedom for every Soviet citizen. is far from over. According to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. today there are some 15.000 Soviet Jewish "refuseniks." A refusenik is a Soviet Jew who has applied to emigrate but has been turned down on some spurious grounds. There is firm evidence that at least 400.000 Jews have initiated the emigration process by requesting a letter of invitation from Israel. Although these individuals have not yet been officially refused permission to emigrate. for one reason or another their applications are in a state of limbo. The official Soviet statistic for the number of Jews in the U.S.S.R. is 1.8 million while United States sources estimate there are some 2 million Soviet Jews. There is no telling how many of these individuals would like to emigrate if they could. My point. Mr.
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