CONCURRENT RESOLUTION S — J U N E 23, 1982
96 STAT. 2647
Whereas Mart Niklus has been harassed by Soviet authorities for twenty-two years, arrested numerous times, imprisoned, and refused permission to emigrate to Sweden; Whereas in January 1981, Mart Niklus was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years for writing and circulating materials related to, among other things, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the trial of the chairman of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group and others, and for listening to the Voice of America; Whereas Mart Niklus is a prominent scientist and linguist, a translator of scientific works and a writer, and is a leading Baltic human rights activist; and Whereas Mart Niklus is in ill health in a special regime labor camp and is in need of immediate medical attention: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the President, acting directly or through the Secretary of State, should— (1) continue to express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms the opposition of the United States Government to the imprisonment and treatment of Mart Niklus; and (2) urge the Government of the Soviet Union to— (A) release Mart Niklus from imprisonment and provide him with proper medical care, and (B) permit Mart Niklus to emigrate to Sweden to join a relative there in accordance with the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and (3) inform the Government of the Soviet Union that the Government of the United States, in evaluating its relations with other countries, will take into account the extent to which such countries honor their commitments under international law, especially commitments with respect to the protection of human rights. SEC. 2. The Clerk of the House shall transmit a copy of this concurrent resolution to the President with the request that he further transmit such copy to the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United States. Agreed to June 21, 1982. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEARS 1983-1985 A N D R E VI S I O N FOR F I S C A L Y E A R 1982
June 23, 1982 [S. Con. Res. 92]
Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That the Congress hereby determines and declares that the Second Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 1982 is hereby revised, the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 1983 is hereby established, and the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 are hereby set forth. (a) The following budgetary levels are appropriate for the fiscal years beginning on October 1, 1981, October 1, 1982, October 1, 1983, and October 1, 1984:
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