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Mr. President. I rise to participate with many of my colleagues in the Congressional Call to Conscience on behalf of the 350.000 Soviet Jews who seek the right to emigrate. primarily to Israel. I want to add my voice to the eloquent words of those who have spoken out to bear witness to the suffering of these brave prisoners of conscience. I can only hope that our collective pleases will improve the chances of freedom of those who are refused the right to leave the Soviet Union. As free people. we reaffirm our demand that the Soviet Union respond to international conventions and humanitarian concerns by granting Soviet Jews the right to free movement beyond the borders of the Soviet Union.