Mr. Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity to join my colleagues in protesting the refusal of the Soviet Government to grant exit visas for members of the Terlitsky family. For more than a decade. Mark Terlitsky. his wife Svetlana and other members of their family have been among the most prominent leaders in efforts to gain respect for basic rights guaranteed under the Helsinki accords and various other human rights agreements. The courage these individuals have displayed is beyond our imagination. By publicly stating their desire to leave. they subject themselves to a continuous compaign of official harassment. They also face grave risks including imprisonment. internal exile. and physical brutality by KGB thugs.