I thank the gentleman for yielding. There is virtually a constellation of opportunities. of different measures that George Bush can bring to this meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev. and one of those is certainly to recognize the dramatic changes in Soviet emi. gration. Our goal. and the United States established some years ago. was under the pressure of withholding normal trade relationships with the Soviet Union in JacksonVanik. to withhold that relationship unless the Soviet Union made some dramatic changes in the rights of emigration. a basic human right for its citizens. In recent months. indeed. throughout this year and last. the numbers of those Soviet Jews. ethnic Germans. evangelists. Christians who have been permitted to leave the Soviet Union has grown into the thousands. indeed. beyond our own ability to absorb them.
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