Détente: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Europe of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 615 pages |
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abroad Administration affairs agreement Alexander Solzhenitsyn amendment American antireligious arms BOWDEN Brezhnev Chairman China citizens cold war commercial Committee Communist conference CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continue cooperation countries Czechoslovakia Defense Department détente dissidents East Germany economic emigration equipment European exchange export forces foreign policy freedom going human rights ideological important Institute intellectuals interest Israel issue Jackson-Vanik amendment Jewish Jews June KENDALL Kissinger Mark Azbel ment Middle East military million missiles MORGENTHAU Moscow nationality groups negotiations nuclear official organizations Party peaceful coexistence Pepsi-Cola political position President Nixon problems question Radio Liberty regime relations relationship religion religious groups Republic ROSENTHAL Russian Orthodox Church Sakharov SALT Samizdat scientific Secretary social socialist Soviet authorities Soviet Government Soviet leaders Soviet Union Soviet-American statement strategic subcommittee talks tension tion Ukraine Ukrainian Ukrainian SSR Uniate United USSR Washington weapons West Western WINN ZILBERMAN
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Page 446 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of...
Page 185 - These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
Page 63 - They will proceed from the common determination that in the nuclear age there is no alternative to conducting their mutual relations on the basis of peaceful coexistence. Differences in ideology and in the social systems of the USA and the USSR are not obstacles to the bilateral development of normal relations based on the principles of sovereignty, equality, non-interference in internal affairs and mutual advantage.
Page 535 - First, they will proceed from the common determination that in the nuclear age there is no alternative to conducting their mutual relations on the basis of peaceful coexistence.
Page 446 - Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule...
Page 72 - The USA and the USSR attach major importance to preventing the development of situations capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations.
Page 385 - President is authorized to control, in furtherance of world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States, the export and import of arms, ammunition, and implements of war.
Page 184 - In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people...
Page 241 - States and only to the extent necessary — (A) to restrict the export of goods and technology which would make a significant contribution to the military potential of any other country or combination of countries which would prove detrimental to the national security of the United States...
Page 235 - ... to further the foreign policy of the United States and to aid in fulfilling its international responsibilities; and (c) to exercise the necessary vigilance over exports from the standpoint of their significance to the national security of the United States.