I hope that both sides will devote significant energies to building upon these developments. President Bush has pledged to respond to positive steps by the Soviet Union with positive steps of his own. One specific step that President Bush should take immediately is a temporary waiver of the JacksonVanik amendment linking nondiscriminatory trade treatment with the freedom of emigration. Since the beginning of 1989. over 100.000 people have emigrated from the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands more have permission to leave. The monthly rate of emigration continues to rise. Depending on how the overall trend is projected. we can anticipate that over 150.000 will depart the Soviet Union this year. It is estimated that as many as 250.000 Soviets could apply to come to the United States in In the early 1980s. only about 1.000 people were allowed to leave the Soviet Union annually. This is a truly remarkable change. The indisputable rise in Soviet emigration is a step that deserves an American response. The response quite clearly should be the conditional lifting of impediments to trade im. posed by the JacksonVanik amendment. Particularly if we are to maximize the leverage of the law.
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