Mr. Speaker. the Soviet Union today announced it is granting to Vladimir and Maria Slepak the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. I want to congratulate the Soviet Union for that decision. Maria and Vladimir Slepak first applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union 17 years ago. and in 1977 their sons were allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel. One of their sons now lives and studies medicine in my area of Philadelphia. In 1978. Maria and Vladimir Slepak hung outside of their window a banner asking the Soviet Union to allow them to leave to join their son in Israel.
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