Theodore Monn, chairman at the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, reported Monday that only 288 Jews arrived in Vienna during April. This figure represents 93 percent plummet from the 4,296 Jews who departed from the USSR that month in 1979, a peak year for Jewish emigration.
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