Mr. Speaker. I join with many others around the world in rejoicing that Ida Nudel has finally arrived in Israel and that the Yevgeniy Yakir family and Vladimir and Marie Slepak have been told they will receive permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. In all these cases. the welcome news comes at the end of many years of anxious waiting. Ida Nudel was long one of the best known of the refuseniks of the Soviet Union. She richly deserves her reputation as an unselfish advocate of the right to emigrate and a defender of the many others who have been denied that right. She has not sought to call attention to herself. but her own suffering was great. For 16 years she waited since her first refusal from the Soviet authorities.
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