Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990269698

The committees first reward came on Monday. September 29. 1986. when Tatyana and Benjamin Bogomolny received their permission to leave the Soviet Union. Benjamin is the worlds longest standing refusenik. he first applied for an exit visa in 1966. He and Tanya will join her father and sister in California which is particularly joyous for Tanya because she has had breast cancer since December 1985 and has no other relatives in the U.S.S.R. While the exit visa is welcome news for the Bogomolnys. the remaining four cancer patients are still waiting. The plea of the International Cancer Patients Solidarity Committee is purely humanitarian. Their request is for these cancer victims to reunite with their relatives before their imminent deathduring this difficult time of illness. Rimma Bravve has advanced ovarian cancer. In February 1979 Rimma. her husband Vladimir. her sister and her parents applied for an exit visa. While they were waiting for a response. Rimmas father died of cancer.
Keywords matched
visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1986-10-08
Speech ID
990269698
Paragraph
#0
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