This list goes on and reminds us of our everpressing responsibility to p:omote global respect for. human rights. It is especially disturbing that on the 10th anniversary of the Final Acts ratification. the Soviet Union. one of its major signatories. continues to violate some of the accords most fundamental terms. In compiling its dismal record on human rights. the Soviet Union has committed a long list ofdeplorable offenses but its shameful mistreatment of Soviet Jews and the plight of Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov immediately come to mind. *During the past 5 years. the number of exit visas granted Soviet Jews has plummeted. while arrests and trials of Jewish activists and refuseniks has increased markedly. And over the same period. the fate of SakharoV has rested under constant question. as he and Yelena Bonner remain confined to internal exile in the city of Gorky. The need for such abuses to come to an end should not be underestimated.