They fire them from their jobs. deny them housing. expell their children from the unversity. and subject them to criminal prosecution for parasitism because they are unemployed. Some they commit to mental hospitals for "treatment" of their mental disorderseeking freedom through the exercise of the rights their government supposedly guaranteed them when it signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Final Act. The preamble of this resolution and its first resolved clause discuss the new Soviet emigration regulations. Dr. Yuri Orlov. a founding member and the spokesman for the MoscowHelsinki monitoring group recently gave an interview to Eric Greenberg. director of governmental and legal affairs for the coalition to free Soviet Jews. This interview was published in the January 1987. issue of coalitions newsletter. "Lifelines." In this interview. Dr. Orlov. who is not Jewish but who has been one of the most prominent leaders of the Soviet human rights movement. discusses the emigration rules and Soviet antisemitism. among other topics. His remarks go to the heart of our discussion today. I ask that his interview be reprinted in the RECORD at the end of my remarks. I commend his comments to my colleagues and all supporters of human rights. In particular. I want to reinforce his remarks about the link between free emigration and security. This resolution makes the point that Soviet human rights violations seriously affect the atmosphere for productive negotiations on other aspects of our bilateral relations and make it much more difficult to reach viable agreements with them. Dr. Orlovs comments on the positive impact free emigration would have on this situation are very important. Speaking for myself. I know I would have great difficulty accepting any agreement with the Soviet Union which did not include explicit measures to assure verification and provide for enforcement when violations were detected.
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