Now after the elapse of 11 years in the Terlitsky familys struggle to leave the Soviet Union. there do not appear to be any further avenues of appeal open to them. Yet we cannot give up hope for the Terlitskys or the countless other families who remain unknown to us in the West. At the same time that we applaud the release of prominent refuseniks such as Natan Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov. we must not cease our efforts to highlight these lesser known cases and bring the full force of world public pressure to bear on the Soviets in the hopes that they will finally relent and allow the Terlitskys to emigrate. We ask Secretary Gorbachev to demonstrate that the policy of glasnost offers real hope to the Soviet people that they will be afforded the right to be reunified with their families and the full measure of other individual rights to which they are entitled.
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