Session #100 · 1987–89

Speech #1000118875

Mr. Speaker. today the distinguished Senator from Colorado and member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. TIM WIRTH. is hosting a 50th birthday party for Benjamin Charny. a Soviet refusenik who has been stricken with melanoma. a deadly skin cancer and who also suffers from heart disease. Benjamin Charny has been trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union for more than 8 years. In April of this year. Soviet authorities again denied Benjamin permission to seek much needed medical treatment in the West and told him not to even reapply until 1995. A callous act of cruelty.
Keywords matched
emigrate

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
—
Chamber
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State
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Gender
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Date
1987-10-29
Speech ID
1000118875
Paragraph
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