Both Houses of Congress, before adjourning for the year-end recess, adopted a resolution without dissent urging the Soviet government to allow Ida Nudel, the only Jewish woman Prisoner of Conscience, to be reunited with her family in Israel.
The resolution, which had 31 co-sponsors in the Senate, led by Senators Harrison Williams (D.NJ) and Charles Percy (R.III.) was adopted last Thursday night in the Senate. The Senate vote completed action on the resolution which was passed last month by the House where it had 125 co-sponsors, led by Rep. Edward Stack. (D.Fla.). The resolution urges President Carter “to continue to express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms, the opposition of the United States to the exile of Ida Nudel to Siberia.”
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