I rise today to speak out once again on behalf of human rights in the Soviet Union and. in particular Soviet Jewry. Mr. Speaker. Americans are following with great interest recent development in the U.S.S.R. It appears as though General Secretary Gorbachev has taken some first steps toward improving human rights in the Soviet Union. A number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience have been released from the Gulag. Emigration figures are up somewhat from the dismal rates last year. In todays Washington Post Morris Abrams. chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. notes his optimism about possible major changes in Soviet policy toward the Jewish minority there. following his discussions with Mr. Gorbachev.
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