Teachers and students of Carmel College wrote Prime Minister Edward Heath to thank him for supporting the Soviet Jewry campaign and to ask him to intervene with the Soviet authorities to expedite delivery of 32 packages sent to Leonid Slepak of Moscow on his bar mitzvah.
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