President. the following was written by a young woman who. along with her parents. left the Soviet Union 5 years ago to begin a new life in the United States. Her personal experience as a Jewish citizen of the Soviet Union. a "refusenik." and as an emigree are. I feel. movingly told. On June 10. 1981. the approach lights of the Kennedy Airport had as much meaning to me as the Statue of Liberty must have had to earlier immigrants. My family was finally arriving in this country from the Soviet Union. As the plane was rolling toward the terminal.
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