The World - News from Jan. 4, 1985
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The number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union dropped below 900 in 1984, the fewest in the 14 years that the Kremlin has permitted Jewish emigration, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported in New York. Exit visas were issued to 896 Soviet Jews in 1984, the agency said. Nearly 265,000 Jews have left the Soviet Union since 1970, more than 60% of them settling in Israel, the group said.
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