The Soviet Jewry Research Bureau of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today that only 51 Jews were permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union in March. This is the lowest monthly figure since the movement began in the late 1960s. According to the Bureau’s chairman, Charlotte Jacobson, “this is a shocking development that must not go unnoticed. Soviet authorities may have taken a radical step which will affect relations with people in the West. Over the past year and a half, the monthly average has been about 100 people.”
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