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During the 12-hour event, more than 1700 people signed letters of protest to Soviet officials about urgent cases of Russian "refuseniks" and political prisoners, said Melissa B. Milgrem '88, chairman of Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, which organized the event...
...also signed petitions asking President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev to place Soviet emigration restrictions on the agenda of the upcoming summit in Iceland, Milgren said. She added that some students also wrote personal letters of support to Soviet families who have asked to leave that country, Milgrem said...
Although sponsored by Students for SovietJewry, organizers said the write-a-thon had alarger cause. "There is the issue of Soviet Jewry,but there is also the much larger issue of thegeneral group who would like to be intellectuallyor religiously free," Milgrem said...