These include the releases of Anatoly Shcharansky. Yuri Orlov. and David Goldfarb. and the permission given Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner to leave Gorki and return to Moscow. Furthermore. we are heartened to hear that in the last few months more people have been granted exit visas than at any time since late 1981. 200.000 Jews have been released since we passed the Jackson/Vanick amendment. Finally. I am heartened to read in todays Washington Post that Morris B. Abram. chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. and Edgar Bronfman. chairman of the World Jewish Congress. after having met with Soviet Government officials last week. believe that the Soviet Union will soon begin once more to permit largescale Jewish emigration. and increased cultural and religious freedom to those Jews who wish to remain in the Soviet Union. I wish to echo Mr. Abram when he states: We now await Soviet performance on all these fronts. for only then are we prepared to say that Glasnost is a real process and that it includes Jews.
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