Mary. 20 years ago. Yet. under current Soviet policy. Mark and Mary are dependent upon their inlaws to secure permission to emigrate. This practice should end. As a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. the Helsinki accords. and the Vienna concluding document. the Soviet Union obliged itself to eliminate all remaining restrictions on emigration. But. the fact that the Bernsteins and others remain in the Soviet Union clearly indicates that further steps must be taken by the Soviets in the area of human rights. Though it is encouraging that the Soviet Union has acknowledged its obligations. such acknowledgment will not help Mark Bernstein. or the hundreds of others still denied emigration visas. until it is translated into action. We must let the Soviet Union know that we will not consider their obligations fufilled until all restrictions on emigration have been eliminated.*
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