Mr. Speaker. today I ask my colleagues to join in celebrating the birthday of Ida Nudel. Soviet refusenik. by cosigning a letter to U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev requesting that Nudel receive an exit visa. My colleague. Mr. LENT. and I will be sending the letter next week asking the Soviet leader to grant Ms. Nudels pending exit visa request so that she may join her sister in Israel. Ida Nudel has been trying since 1971 to emigrate and be reunited with her sister in Israel. In the past 16 years she has been subjected to continued isolation. harassment. and persecution for her efforts to emigrate and for her support of other refuseniks. The official reason for rejection of Ms. Nudels application for an exit visa is her knowledge of state secrets. This contradicts new emigration guidelines in the U.S.S.R. that security classification is generally limited to 5 years. and no longer than 10 years. After 16 years. any knowledge Ms. Nudel may have possessed is now outdated.
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