Particularly. in the areas outside security agreements. such as commercial relations. peopletopeople exchanges. and technology sharing. the human rights factor should figure much more prominently in dealings with the Soviets. And when gross violations of human rights do occur. as in the Solzhenitsyn case. surely the United States can do better than to merely say. as did Secretary Kissinger last week. thatThe necessity for detente . . . does not reflect approbation of the Soviet domestic structure. Soviet leaders. for all their seeming intransigence. are not immune to international pressure. as can be plainly seen by the commutation of the death sentences for the Leningrad hijackers and the increased emigration of Soviet Jews. What is lacking now is a commitment by U.S. decisionmakers to show greater concern for human rights In foreign policy. Without that concern. foreign policy serves only the narrow interests of those in power.
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