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past year. We continue to press for freer emigration from the Soviet Union and have adjusted our admission ceiling accordingly," the secretary said. "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." Shultz is scheduled to meet in Washington September 19-20 with Foreign Minister Shevardnadze.
"We raise These issues at all meetings," Shultz said, noting that during the nuclear and space discussions earlier this month in Washington he "took the occasion to go there and speak both on the emigration problem and about the Daniloff case to them, so they would have no mistake about our views in any forum."
The secretary cautioned the senators not to "make the assumption That somehow or other the action is over" in the Daniloff case, "because it certainly isn't. I would counsel not to be quiet, but quite the reverse EL
"I think the more attention is paid, the more it's clear to Mr. Gorbachev and others in the Soviet Union that what they have done is recognized for what it is here, and that it has brought about a very Jeep reaction and feeling That goes across the board," Shultz said.
"I hope you keep screaming about it and I intend to. But I intend to do more things than just scream about it," the secretary declared. He did not elaborate.
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"The human rights situation in the Soviet Union is abysmal, and the emigration picture is terrible, Shultz said in response to another question. "And the Daniloff case represents in many respects the essence of the problem the difference between our societies
(On September 15, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said the United States would "very much" like to see Daniloff freed before the Washington meeting of Shultz and Shevardnadze. "If Nick Danilofl is not freed by Friday (September 19), the secretary will put that issue at the top of the agenda when he meets with the Soviet Foreign minister," Kalb said.)
Shultz told the subcommittee he was pleased to confirm the arrival in the United States September 15 of more than 100 long-term Cuban political prisoners and their families.
"Don't misunderstand what has happened. What has taken place is that some people who we regard as an especially poignant group have been admitted," the secretary explained, people who have been in prison for ten years or more.
"We felt that was a special group that should be attended to regardless of the attitudes of the Cubans otherwise on the Mariel question, he said. He said discussions have been held to try reinstate the Mariel Migration agreement with Cuba, but so far they have come to "no avail, although that doesn't mean that we necessarily stopped the effort."
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When Shultz was questioned about the refusal of the United States establish formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam to foster its "problem-solving" efforts, the secretary pointed out that Vietnam is "the heart of the problem."
"We've had a lot of discussions with them about the POW/MIA issue and through the UNHCR on the Orderly Departure Program. There has been quite an intensive effort on those matters of humanitarian concern, he said.
"However, I disagree with you about the advisability of changing our broad political and economic policy toward Vietnam. Our policy is that in addition to insisting, as a humanitarian matter, on resolving particularly the POW/MIA issue, that Vietnam get out of Cambodia, that there be a resolution of that problem," Shultz said. "In taking that position, we have been supporting the ASEAN countries, particularly the Thais, and...I think also letting it be clear what the result is for Vietnam of the isolation they have imposed on themselves by their policies, which the world condemns."
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He said the situation confronting the countries of first asylum "a very hard problem,"
"First asylum countries take on a major burden and part of working with this problem is assuring them that by being a first asylum country they don't wind up with something that's completely unmanageable," he said. He pointed to Pakistan which has a massive population of Afghan refugees.
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