October 3. in room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Helsinki Final Act was signed by the heads of all the nations of Europe except Albania. plus the United States and Canada. on August 1. 1975. In celebrating the 10th anniversary of that event this last summer. the process created by the Final Act has come under close scrutiny. particularly in light of the blatant violations of Final Acts provisions on human rights. family reunification and other humanitarian concerns by the governments of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Some believe that the United States should withdraw from the Helsinki process because of the continuing violations. Others have argued that these same violations make CSCE all the more necessary as a way to focus world attention on the wide gap between the East blocs words and deeds.
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