President Ford will be leaving for Europe shortly to attend the final summit meeting of the 35nation European Security Conference. I know many of my colleagues share my apprehension that the final accord presented at the summit may brush aside the key issue of human rights. I recently traveled to the Soviet Union with four of my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee in order to obtain firsthand information on the very vital questions of emigration and political and social freedom. I returned from this trip convinced that we must continue to link the issue of human rights to the Soviets requests for political and economic cooperation. Dtente is hollow if the United States does not continue to insist that the Soviet Union grant its citizens vital civil liberties.
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