This year. the focus of the fast and prayer vigil is on divided families. those individuals who are separated from a husband. wife. mother. father. brother. sister. son. or daughter living here in the United States or elsewhere in the West. Recently. the Soviet Union announced that it intends to resolve 36 of these cases. involving 117 individuals. Certainly. this is good news. However. there are thousands of other families who remain separated. and we must not let this window of opportunity close without pressing for a broad policy of family reunification in the Soviet Union. One family for whom such a policy would mean an end to 30 years of separation is the family of Anatoly Michelson. Anatoly. who spoke today on the Capitol steps. has not seen his wife.
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