I think there are problems of emigration in a great many countries in the world outside of the socalled nonmarket countries. and that this amendment does not address itself to that. I was only curious to know why this amendment had not been directed toward all of those countries as well. because I know the Senators commitment to human rights is equal to or greater than my own. and I somehow think that we in the Senate deplete it a little bit if we do not pay attention to everyones human rights. And if we should only pay attention to the rights of just a small number of people. who deserve those rights. incidentally. I think we ought to allow totally free emigration of Soviet Jews or Soviet Georgians or Soviet anybody from the U.S.S.R. or any other country that is prohibiting that emigration. The point I am trying to get at is the amendmentand I do not think there is any question about ithas been narrowly directed and narrowly construed in spite of the protestations that I have heard here today and. in a sense. It is kind of unfair that other people are not being provided the same kind of protection as the Jews of Soviet Russia.
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