Speech #980166482

I hope that we can get some action in regard to it to stop these outrageous actions by the Soviet Government against their own citizens. people who simply want to exert basic human rights and human freedoms in a society that has far. far too few of them. I think the matter for all of us here in the Congress is one that we cannot think of in terms necessarily of any great breakthrough. We are going to have to work day after day. week after week. month after month. and probably year after year. in order to provide the kinds of pressures to open up the gates of Soviet immigration and to allow people to escape to freedom. It is a longterm commitment that I have certainly made. that members of the Human Rights Caucus have made. that those who now join in the new organization that we formed very recently. called the Interparliamentary Group for Human Rights in the Soviet Union. that is a group of legislators from all the free western countries of Europe and others. such as Japan. It is just being formed now to bring international pressure for greater human freedoms in the Soviet Union.