The openness has been heralded in our newspapers and in the minds of many Americans. What has been opened? Certainly not the emigration policy. With over 200.000 Soviet Jews taking the dangerous step of applying for permission to leave their country. only 943 were permitted to leave in 1986. less than onehalf of 1 percent of all those who have applied. Still. these numbers. representing suffering individuals. are buried in our newspapers while Gorbachev takes headlines for permitting a prominent citizen to live in his own apartment. If there is any hope for the hundreds of thousands who wish to emigrate so that they may practice their religion freely and openly and for the millions who wish to remain. but express their beliefs and ideas as freely and openly as Dr. Sakharov. the applause for Mr. Gorbachev must be tempered with demands that his governments policies more clearly correspond with its rhetoric.
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