Without objection. it is so ordered. and reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. It will be printed in the RECORD at this point. The text of the amendment is as follows: On page 14. between lines 3 and 4. insert the following new section: SEC. 105. (a) The Senate finds that(1) physicist Andrel Sakharov. novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. historian Pyotr Yakir. economist Viktor Krasin. And other citizens of the Soviet Union have demonstrated enormous courage and intellectual honesty in advocating and defending the importance of fundamental civil and political liberty. the necessity for the free and unrepressed dissemination of ideas. and the meaning of basic human decency although faced with increasing harassment and imminent danger of criminal sanction. (2) the intensive and thorough campaign of the Soviet Government to intimidate and deter those who have spoken out against repression of political and intellectual dissent profoundly offends the conscience of a free people. and (3) recent incidents of Soviet Governmentsanctioned antiSemitism violate internationally agreedupon principles of human rights. including free emigration and free expression of ideas. (b) It is. therefore. the sense of the Senate that the President should take immediate and determined steps to(1) impress upon the Soviet Government the grave concern of the American people with the intimidation of those within the Soviet Union who do not adhere to prevailing ideology. (2) call upon the Soviet Government to permit the free expression of ideas and free emigration by all its citizens in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and (3) use the medium of current negotiations with the Soviet Union as well as informal contacts with Soviet officials in an effort to secure an end to repression of dissent.
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