Speaker. over the weekend in a hardly noticed announcement. the Soviet Union said that it would be terminating flights from Moscow. Leningrad. and Kiev that went through Budapest and then on to Israel. This has been the major escape route for thousands of Soviet Jews over the last several months and a termination of these flights will leave them stuck in the Soviet Union. Already faced with a rising tide of antiSemitism and emigration difficulties. this new blow puts an end. or a virtual end to the major escape route of Soviet Jews who wish to leave the Soviet Union and emigrate to Israel. This is a major step backward. Mr.
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