The World - News from Nov. 8, 1985
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union increased in October, the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration announced in Geneva. The agency, which is involved in the resettlement of Soviet Jewish emigrants, said 124 new arrivals were registered at the Vienna transit center in October, up by 31 from September. The 1985 monthly record was in July with 174 arrivals, the committee said. The resettlement program, which began in 1971, reached its all-time monthly record in October, 1979, with 4,800 Jews obtaining Soviet exit visas.
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