It would indicate the American willingness to welcome the Soviets Into the international trading system If it can adapt to the economic principles and rules upon which that system is based. Finally. it would be a necessary precondition for revealing the fact that It is Soviet economic weakness. not American law. that ultimately limits United StatesSoviet trade. For all these reasons. I have urged the President to Immediately exercise his authority to temporarily waive the JacksonVanik amendment. Since May. I have called for such a waiver. Since May. Soviet emigration numbers have continued to rise. Senator Jackson often said that his amendment would only be deemed a success when the President could exercise the waiver provision. Now is the time to make the amendment successful.
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