Mr. President. I rise to join many of my colleagues and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in speaking on behalf of an estimated 350.000 Soviet Jews who are refused the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. I speak today. as I did last year. as a part of the 1986 Congressional Call to Conscience in an effort to focus attention on the plight of these brave prisoners of conscience. It is our hope that such attention will somehow improve the chances for freedom of those in spiritual and physical exile in the Soviet Union. The release of Anatoly Shcharansky in February was an encouragement to those of us who have long advocated the emancipation of Soviet refuseniks.
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