The Helsinki process gives us a way to keep hope alive for the refuseniks and for the dissidents who are being crushed under the weight of the security services of the Soviet Union and its allies. If we pull out. the light of hope will go off all over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Second. the allies are unlikely to follow us in any unilateral withdrawal from the process. Since their concerns are weighted more heavily toward the economic. security. and family reunification aspects of the. Helsinki Final Act. they would be very difficult to persuade to abandon the process with us. Accordingly. there is a very real risk that the Soviet Union would then be the dominant power in a negotiating process involving all of our allies. but not us.
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