Mr. President. today I want to share with the Senate and the American people several stories of courage and persecution. several stories of Soviet Jews who are struggling to secure a simple right that we here in the United States take for granted: the right to emigrate. These cases are not among the more celebrated of the Soviet refuseniks. The names have not figured high on the list of refuseniks that official American requests seek to have let go. These cases have come to my attention because constituents in Pennsylvania have alerted me. But the desire of these Soviet Jewish families to emigrate. their desire to leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel or the United States. where they can practice the religion of their fathers without fear of persecution. is as strong as that of more familiar refusenik figures. The first case is the Mendeleyev family of Moscow. They applied to leave the U.S.S.R. more than a decade ago.
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