The World - News from Jan. 8, 1987
Moscow allowed only 944 Soviet Jews to emigrate last year, the second-lowest annual total on record, refugee agencies said. Annual arrivals at a Vienna resettlement and transit center climbed steadily to reach a record 51,330 in 1979, but Moscow clamped down on Jewish emigration--with numbers dropping to 21,470 in 1980, 9,860 in 1981, 2,700 in 1982, 1,320 in 1983 and a low of 922 in 1984. At first, nearly all the emigrants went to Israel. But only one-quarter to one-third now go there because of problems in finding jobs and housing.
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