Mr. Speaker. I must begin by saying the most necessary thing. albeit an unpleasent one: the announcements in todays newspapers about reported Soviet plans for sharp increases in Jewish emigration are not unqualified good news. They deserve no more and no less attention than was given the statement of Historian Martin Gilbert in December. that "Anatoly Shcharanskys release coincided with a year when more Russian Jews were arrested and imprisoned than at any time since the death of Stalin." I do not mean that today we should not be pleased for the good fortune of the 11.000 or 12.000 who have waited for so many years. What is necessary is a note of extreme caution.
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