Speaker. I am today introducing a eoncurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President take "immediate and determined steps" toFirst. 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. Second. 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 Third. use the mediun 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. Mr. Speaker. as a result of our current negotiations with the U.S.S.R.. we have a unique opportunity to join with millions of Americans across the land. and many nations of the world. in expressing our outrage at the persecution of Soviet citizens whose only crime has been that they have openly criticized their government or tried to exercise other basic human freedoms. such as the right of emigration. We have heard the eloquent appeals of Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov. We have witnessed the public humiliation of historian Pyotyr I.
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