Jackson Makes Stiff Attack
Detente
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By Dusko Doder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Al Sen. Henry M. Jackson
made a scathing attack on
resident Nixon's policy toivard the Soviet Union yesterday and suggested that the
vurrent Soviet-American de.
.nte is "a formula between
40vernments for capitulation
Nrfn the issue of human rights."
genuine detente."
"When reading the Western
press and listening to Western
broadcasts is no longer an act
of treason, when families can
be reunited across national
borders, when emigration is
free—then we shall have a
Jackson said Congress
liould block a Soviet-AmeriOn trade agreement until
genuine detente between peoples and not a formula between governments for capitulation on the issue of human
Moscow takes steps to allow
tee emigration of its citizens.
lie attacked Mr. Nixon's
!``quiet diplomacy" and "those
ipho argue that we must
Wake" trade concessions to
rights."
Jackson specifically criticized the Soviet-American
agreement on limiting strategic arms, which he said gives
Lir omote detente with Moscow
Sithout attaching conditions
SEN HENRY M. JACKSON
... to press amendments
!`promote human rights in
e Soyiet Union."
„„ He Pledge,d continued assist- Communist Party leader Leoance to Soviet Jews seeking to nid 1. Brezhnev's scheduled
igrate and said, "For us, a visit to Washington, Jackson's
tion of immigrants, to turn speech was a pledge that he
ow' backs on them in the in- intends to push for congres' rest of the most shallow no- sional passage of his amendIon of detente—or worse yet, ments. They would deny trade
VI the blind pursuit of profits benefits to the Russians and
from -trade—would be a be- prevent Mr. Nixon from extrayal equaled only by our ab- tending U.S. 4pvernment credje ct silencr in the 1930s" dur- its to them as long as Moscow
ing anti-semitic pogroms in does not permit a free flow of
emigration.
Nazi Germpny.
Coming 'tWo weeks before
The amendment, which was
cosponsored by 77 senators
and 280 House members,
would effectively prO,ent the
implementation of the Soviet.
American trade pact and also
slow down the, momentum for
further imprdvement in So•
viet-American relations.
Speaking at commencement
exercises at Yeshiva University in New York, where he
was awarded an honorary doctorate degree, Jackson said
advantages to Moscow, and
Washington 's sale of grain to
the Soviet Union that Jackson
said was "subsidized to the
tune of $300 million by the
American taxpayers" while
the American housewife now
must pay higher grocery bills.
"That is not the sort of diplomacy we need and it cannot produce the sort of detente we need," Jackson said.