Mr. President. Grigory Lederman and his family first applied for permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel in 1976. They have been waiting ever since. In the meantime. his wife has been forced from her job as a piano teacher at a childrens club. He has been arrested. along with two other refuseniks. while attempting to transmit an appeal to President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev during their January summit. Last month. he and his wife joined in a hunger strike to call attention to the plight of Soviet Jews during the 27th Communist Party Congress. The case of Grigory and Elizaveta Lederman is but one of the thousands that compel us to continue our appeals to the Soviet Union to restore the most basic religious and political freedoms to its people.
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