SE BET eiNSI'FI POINT PAPER OVERVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS AND US AGENDA The people of the United States deeply believe in the cause of human rights everywhere in the world Governments which respect human rights internally are more trustworthy externally Human rights performance tends to set limits on what is politically possible in other areas including trade and arms control All 100 Senators signed pre-summit letters to you and Gorbachev on human rights Imprudent for Soviets to expect we could move rapidly ahead in other areas if not supported by progess on human rights DEVELOPMENTS SINCE REYKJAVIK AND GENEVA There has been limited progress on resolving individual cases and releasing some prisoners of conscience emigration rates are up from last few years and -- at least for a while -there was not only increased openness in official media but a certain tolerance of unofficial demonstrations and publications But over the past 60 days there seems to have been a retreat from this tolerance US-Soviet dialogue on human rights more frequent but results have fallen short of our expectations WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE Much remains to be done both to help individuals and to change Soviet laws and practices o A number of cases we have raised with Soviets at highest level have not been resolved you can hand over short list o Want to urge Gorbachev to resolve all remaining cases of divided families and American citizens as well as refuseniks on lists we gave Soviets in September o Urge him to increase religious freedom end psychiatric abuse and give human rights gains some degree of permanence by reforming Soviet laws and practices s e rmrr ' SB iS I'FIV J • Declassify on OADR BY