— The number of Jews who arrived in Vienna from the Soviet Union in March was 1,249, according to Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the Soviet Jewry Research Bureau of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Mr. Jacobson noted that this number was slightly below February’s total of 1,407 but drastically lower than last year’s March total of 3,049.
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