Foreign policy is much more than an agenda of global security issues. it is also a concern for individual liberty and human dignity. It is crucial in Americas pursuit of the former that in the talks with Mr. Gromyko this week administration representatives not lose sight of the latter. The human rights situation confronting the Jewish community in the Soviet Union represents an enormous challenge and. far too often. a temptation to despair. Emigration levels are scandalously low and antiSemitic activity alarmingly on the rise. An intensified pattern of Soviet repression and persecution is unmistakable. Soviet obligations under a variety of international human rights instruments have been cast aside.
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