Only 69 Soviet Jews were permitted to emigrate last month, according to the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. This brings the total for the first nine months of 1984 to 721. At this rate, the Conference said, less than 1,000 Soviet Jews will have received exit visas this year.
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