And given the congressional calendar. lack of action now means that no action will take place perhaps thrnugh the entire 1992. Nor has the administration made a commitment saying that it will support these guarantees if there is a 4month delay. Soviet refugees have been arriving in Israel at the rate of about 20.000 a month. and over 1 million refugees are expected to emigrate over the next 5 years. That will be an increase of about 20 percent of the population. We cannot turn our backs on these people when we encouraged and fought so hard for their freedom to emigrate. We had the JacksonVanik law. We had other conditions imposed on the Soviet Union that said unless you permit freedom of movement we are not going to do business with you. we are not going to trade with you.
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