Mr. Speaker. in May 1989. Roman and Svetlana Sorkin and their children received exit visas to emigrate from the Soviet Union. A few days before their departure. Soviet officials told Roman he could not leave for secret reasons. The Sorkin family exit visa had been canceled. To hasten their departure. Svetlana participated in hunger strikes sponsored by the Women again Refusal organization. She has written to President Gorbachev. to the British Prime Minister and numerous other officials. all to no avail. Svetlana is now faced with a dilemma. She might have to file an exit visa application without her husband and it is her only chance of getting herself and her children out of the Soviet Union. She might also have to send her three young children alone to Israel to boarding schools and orphanages until her husband is given permission to depart by the Soviets and they can leave for Israel together. Mr.
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