All peaceloving people throughout the world fervently hope that the parties to the Mideast conflict can now speedily agree to an arrangement that will produce a lasting peace. and one that will guarantee immediate repatriation of all prisoners of war. and secure defensible borders for Israel. However. despite our concern for the Mideast. we must not forget the continuing tragedy of the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union. Earlier this year. largely because of the overwhelming weight of world opinion. the Soviet Union relaxed somewhat its restrictive and repressive policies toward Jews wishing to emigrate to other nations. This was encouraging to people the world over concerned with the fundamental issue of human rights. Unfortunately. reports from the Soviet Union in recent weeks indicate that harsh repression of Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate has again increased. There have been reports of a new round of trials of such persons on a variety of flimsy charges and of invariably harsh sentences. There reports are summarized in a document prepared by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. and I ask that it be printed in the RECORD at the conclusion of my remarks.
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