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benefit from the hospitality offered by neighboring nations.

Those in need of resettlement outside of Africa are refugees in

life-threatening situations or refugees who cannot easily be

assimilated

Africans.

for example, urban Ethiopians and some South

For FY 1987, we are proposing an admissions ceiling of

3,500.

This will allow us to process those refugees who cannot

be resettled elsewhere, as well as a limited number of African

refugees currently in first asylum in Europe.

Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Unfortunately, the number of individuals who are granted

permission to depart the Soviet Union has continued to decline

in the past year. We continue to press for freer emigration

from the Soviet Union and have adjusted our admission ceiling

accordingly. The President raised this issue with Chairman

Gorbachev in Geneva, and I intend to do the same with the

Soviet Foreign Minister whenever we meet.

We anticipate that the requested 10,000 admissions will

allow us to process not only the hoped for increase from the

Soviet Union, but also those Romanians registered for the Third

Country Processing program, as well as the regular flow of

refugees who continue to arrive from Eastern Europe.