Original sentence: Before the Reykjavik Summit in 1986, Hecht met with President Ronald Reagan.Hecht reported his effort as successful:.Hecht said that Reagan was told by Gorbachev, "as long as nothing is in the paper, there is no publicity, and we don't hear about it," Jews on the list would be quietly released.Hecht urged Reagan to ask Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ease emigration requirements for Soviet Jews, including those on a list that had been prepared by a member of the Council for Soviet Jewry.The former senator related that Reagan told him afterwards that he had given the list to the Soviet leader at the beginning of the summit when the two men met alone
Edited sentence: He requested that the President ask Mikhail Gorbachev to issue visas to these 1200 Jews so that they could leave the USSR.In 1986 Senator Hecht handed President Ronald Reagen a list of 1200 Soviet Jews