The World - News from Feb. 27, 1986
Mark Palmer, deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs, told a Senate hearing that Romania has agreed to let three dissident Baptist ministers, a labor activist and 16 other people emigrate to the West. Such permission, however, represents only modest progress in a recently intensified U.S. effort to help ease conditions in the Soviet Bloc country, U.S. officials said. Members of Congress repeated warnings that unless Romania’s human rights record improves, Washington will strip it of special trading rights worth $300 million a year.
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