I have included excerpts from the Secretarys recent address before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. which met in Helsinki. While the Soviet Union signed the Helsinki accords 10 years ago. human rights have since suffered in the Soviet Union. Thanks to the cynical attitude of Soviet leaders. the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group has been disbanded and most of its original members are Jn Jail or have been banished. Jewish emigration from that police state has dramatically declined. Refuseniks by the thousands are being harassed by the allpowerful KGB. Overall. there has been no progress in the human rights area in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Bloc countries.
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Soviet leaders are cynical.