The administration and the Soviet Government have embarked. however cautiously and deliberately. upon a new arms control negotiating process in Geneva. Rumors of impending high level leadership changes in the Soviet Union are also not lacking and there is a sense that we are entering a period in which new decisions will be taken and new directions forged. There are few quiet gestures which would have as great an impact on American public opinion with so little real cost to the Soviet Government as a loosening of emigration restrictions in general and relief for the "refuseniks" in particular. Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time to speak and a time to refrain from speaking. Now is the time for us to speak. quietly but with resolve and commitment. so that we may be heard.*
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