Madrid and Vienna CSCE Review Conferences where she urged political figures and diplomats to press the Soviets to live up to their own obligations under the Helsnski Accords and other International agreements. Sister Ann was a woman of action when responding to the plight of Soviet Jews. In 1979. Sister Ann offered her own freedom to the Soviet Government in exchange for the release of longtime refusenik Ida Nudel. Needless to say. the Soviets refused. but her gesture helped dramatize Ida Nudelrs plight to the world and bring additional pressure on Kremlin leaders to allow Nudel to emigrate. In 1982. Sister Ann was one of three human rights leaders to serve an historic Writ of Habeas Corpus on the Soviet Consul in Washington.
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