Mr. Speaker. last year I traveled to the Soviet Union where I met with a number of refuseniksJews who have been refused permission to emigrate. Upon my return to the United States. I "adopted" three of the refuseniks by making a commitment to press for their right to leave the Soviet Union. Since that time. one refusenik. Valery Lerner. has been granted permission to emigrate. Unfortunately. the others remain unable to leave. The case of one of them. Boris Lifshitz. is particularly tragic. He is being held because he allegedly knows state secrets. However. two commissions convened by the U.S.S.R.
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