It can also survive our requirement for the granting of MFN that the Soviets respect international agreements. chiefly the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Specifically. I believe that the drtente can survive required guarantees that the citizens of the Soviet Union have the right to freely emigrate. and to use another example of human rights that need to be secured. that the scientists and intellectuals of the Soviet Union have freedom of expression. I believe that Soviet violations of United Nations agreements and denials of basic human rights and freedoms are far more disruptive of international relations than a refusalor delayin granting MFN could possibly be. The Soviets argue that tariffs are discriminatory and that granting of MFN should be normal and automatic. At the same time we should consider the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be "normal and automatic." as well as enforceable. Freedom of emigration in the Soviet Union is not the only basic freedom that needs to be guaranteed to the Soviet people. but it is the central Issue today. There is no more basic freedom than the right to leave ones country if one so choosesa right consistently and oppressively denied the Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union. The Jews of the Soviet Union have suffered enough.
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