State security can no longer be used as an excuse in the Mendeleyev case. Mr. Speaker. in addition to enduring an agonizing 17 years with hopes of permission to emigrate to Israel or the United States. this refusenik case is particularly critical and timely because of the threat of the draft which will raise its ugly head in only 13 months. Grigory and Valery will be 18 on their birthday in August 1988. and. thus. likely to be the drafted into the Army. Once drafted into the military. the terms for service are least 3 years in length during which time emigration is prohibited. In some cases. military serviceregardless of the dutyhas been used as an excuse by the Government to refuse applications in the future. I plead with the Soviet Union to grant the desire of this family who has been disappointed for almost two decades and allow them to emigrate. Also. Mr.
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