A petition by 200 Soviet Jews calling for the right to emigrate to Israel has been submitted to the committee which is organizing the Soviet Communist Party congress scheduled for March 31. According to reports reaching here from Moscow, the petition calls on the congress to use its offices to facilitate freedom of emigration and, meanwhile, to protect the applicants for departure from harassment by local and provincial officials. There was today still no official confirmation that 30 Soviet Jewish activists had been granted permission to leave the Soviet Union. (In New York, Mrs. Alla Rusinek who left the Soviet Union last November for Israel, reported today that she learned that her husband, Josef, has been granted permission to leave the Soviet Union and will join her in Israel. Mrs. Rusinek stated that a week after their marriage she was told by Soviet officials that she had to leave Russia within six days without her husband. She is currently visiting in the United States.)
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