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State Dept. Asked to Cite Soviet Human Rights Violations

July 13, 1971
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Sens, Henry Jackson (D., Wash.) and William Brock (R., Tenn.) introduced a resolution today calling on the State Department to bring up the issue of Russian violation of the Declaration of Human Rights in the General Assembly of the United Nations. The resolution, cosponsored by 12 other Senators so far, including Humphrey, Goldwater and McGovern, asks the President to utilize formal and informal contacts with the Soviet Union to persuade the USSR to change its limited emigration policies and to allow free exercise of religion within the USSR. The resolution evolved from a suggestion by David Willig of the Young Israel National Council of Intercollegiate to Sen. Brock’s office.

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