I serve as the ranking republican on the Helsinki Commission which is continuing to study the Gorbachev glasnost to determine if it generates real change in Soviet human rights policies or just spectacular events at the surface. To make sure the progress made at the summit is not lost. we all must keep asking pertinent questions. Natan Shcharansky emphasizes this point in his article in the WashIngton Post on September 13. 1987. That article is just as relevant today as It was then and might well serve to guide us in the weeks. months. and years ahead. Mr. Shcharansky was active In the Soviet Jewish and dissident movements. served 9 years In Soviet prisons. and emigrated to Israel last year. I Include the article at this point: [From the Washington Post. Sept. 13. 1987]
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