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as Senator Grassley said, has continued to decline in the past year. We continue to press for freer emigration from the Soviet Union and I've adjusted our admission ceiling accordingly. The President raised this issue with Chairman Gorbachev in Geneva, and I intend to the Soviet foreign minister whenever we meet.

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of weeks ago to discuss the nuclear and space talks arms negotiations, and I took the occasion to go there and speak both on the immigration problem to them and about the Daniloff case to them, so they would have no mistake of our view in any form.

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Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, over million Afghans have sought asylum in neighboring countries, almost three million of them in Pakistan alone. At the same time, more than two million Palestinians in the Near East are registered with UNRWA. While its role is indirect, it is an important element in efforts to pre-empt the sort of desperation that can lead to extremism. It thus helps create સ climate that will be fundamental to any successful

peace process.

In Iran« the tyrannical

revolution led by Khomeini has driven