President. I rise today to call to the attention of my colleagues the plight of the Alber family. Solomon Alber. his wife Evangelina and their two children Mark and Ilya have been trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union for the past 13 years. Their requests continue to be denied. I have written an appeal to Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev. urging him to allow the Alber family to leave the Soviet Union. My letter is part of a nationwide effort to focus attention on the continuing problems facing refusenik families. I am very pleased to join this effort by "adopting" the Alber family. This "adoption" program is designed to continue to apply pressure on Soviet leaders to allow the Albers and thousands of Soviet refuseniks to emigrate. Mr. President. Solomon Alber. a 55yearold mathematician and physicist. was director of the Mathematics Lab Institute of Chemical Physics in the Academy of Science. His wife Evangelina was employed as a pathologist. When the Alber family applied for a visa to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Solomon was demoted and Evangelina lost her job. On June 23. 1976. the New York Times reported that then 15yearold Mark had become the target of an officially inspired campaign of threats and violence.
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