in their leadership in ensuring that this legislation receives the favorable congressional consideration it truly deserves. While General Secretary Gorbachevs glasnost policy is encouraging. and recently many well know refuseniks have been released. one glance at the emigration statistics on Soviet Jewry in the last 15 years paints an entirely different picture. From 197180 at least 12.000 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate each year. In 1972. 31.681 Soviet Jews were allowed to join their families. These figures include 20.628 in 1974. 28.864 in 1978. and 21.471 in 1980. and a record high 51.320 in 1979. However. for the past 6 years these numbers have been decreasing at an alarming rate. In 1981. only 9.447 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigratethis was less than half the number allowed in 1980. However. these figures further plumetted to a low of 896 in 1984. Last year only 914 Soviet Jews were granted emigration permission. This represents an alarming 88percent decrease from 1971 and an over 98percent decrease from 1979. There is no justification for these actions. no reason for these figures.
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