President. I rise today to urge my colleagues to participate in the Congressional Call to Conscience for Soviet Jews. Sponsored by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. the Call to Conscience has. in the past. been an extremely effective method for bringing attention to refuseniks who are struggling to emigrate from the Soviet Union. As a cochairman of this years Call to Conscience. along with my other distinguished colleagues Senators KOHL and GRASSLEY. I want to encourage the Senates continued attention to the plight of Soviet Jews refused the right to emigrate. While there have been many changes in the Soviet Union over the past several years. there is still good reason to be concerned about Soviet Jewry. And although many Soviet Jews have been able to emigrate. many are still being denied this right. some of them for as long as 15 ybars. Because of the eased restrictions on emigration of Soviet Jews. it is easy to overlook these persistent injustices. I have heard numerous tragic cases. each one is worse than the next. One case that stands out is that of Boris Zolotarevsky. Mr. Zolotarevsky has been trying to emigrate since May 1988. His application has been denied repeatedly because of secrecy. Vladimir Shimko. the Minister of Radio Industry. says he is a security risk because he previously developed adapters for use with computers.
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