The followup conferences in Belgrade and Madrid have also given us opportunities to raise specific human rights cases with the governments concerned. and the upcoming review conference in Vienna will provide a similar opportunity. I hope that at Vienna our delegates will bring up the case of Abe Stolar and his family. Abe Stolar is an American citizen. whose immigrant parents moved back to Russia when he was a boy. The Stolars have been trying to leave the Soviet Union since before the Helsinki accords were signed in 1975. They have been granted permission to leave several times before. only to have their hopes cruelly dashed at the last moment. Last November. the day before President Reagan met Secretary General Gorbachev in Geneva. the Soviets informed the United States Government that a number of Soviet refuseniks would be allowed to emigrate. The Stolars were on that list. Nine months later. the rest of the people on that list have departed. and the Stolars are still there.
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