For a full day. the reading of the "refusenik roll call" echoed through the Cannon Rotunda. One after another. the names of vast numbers of Natans kinsmen were recited in what became almost a haunting dirge. But interspersed between the groups of names. the hopeful declaration "Next Year in Jerusalem" rang out. We must not lose sight of that hope. Mr. President. the hope of freedom and emigration which sustains the Soviet prisoners of conscience. Nor can we forget the individual lives which stand behind the names on the roll. I want to tell my colleagues about one Soviet family. the Davidovitch family.
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