Mr. Speaker. Nahum Meiman first applied to emigrate in 1975 and has been consistently refused permission on the grounds that he knows state secrets. Of course. this is absurd. for as he has told me. his work for the state ended in 1955. Now. he is only an ailing. 76yearold man looking for freedom. But the Meiman story gained its real notoriety in the valiant struggle of Nahums wife Inna against cancer. a battle she tragically lost in February of this year separated from her family. The Soviet Union allowed her to come to the West for treatment too late to alter the course of the disease. and then would only allow her son to come for the funeral.
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