COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin, Chairman DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida MICHAEL D. BARNES, Maryland GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan PETER H. KOSTMAYER, Pennsylvania HARRY M. REID, Nevada MEL LEVINE, California WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan LARRY WINN, JR., Kansas BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California JOEL PRITCHARD, Washington JIM LEACH, Iowa TOBY ROTH, Wisconsin OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois GERALD B. H. SOLOMON, New York DOUGLAS K. BEREUTER, Nebraska MARK D. SILJANDER, Michigan ED ZSCHAU, California CONTENTS Hon. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; accompanied by Charles Fairbanks, David Carliner, chairman, International Human Rights Law Group ............ Michael Posner, executive director, Lawyers Committee for International Jeri Laber, executive director, U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee Joseph T. Eldridge, director, Washington Office on Latin America ..... Penn Kemble, member of the executive committee, Institute on Religion REVIEW OF SECTION 502B OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT Hon. Jerry M. Patterson, chairman, Subcommittee on International De- velopment Institutions and Finance, House Committee on Banking; Stephen B. Cohen, International Human Rights Law Group, associate professor of law, Georgetown University, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.. MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Letter to Hon. Elliott Abrams from Hon. Mervyn M. Dymally, a Representa- Letter to Representative Dymally from Dr. Shaleak Ben Yehuda, community Article entitled "Vietnamese Granted Permanent Residence," published in Letter dated September 10, 1981, to Hon. Jerry M. Patterson from Richard APPENDIXES 1. Text of article by Peter Osnos entitled "Bush Promotes World Conservative Group," published in the Washington Post, June 25, 1983, submitted by 2. Excerpts from "Critique of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982" submitted by Americas Watch, Helsin- ki Watch, and the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights.... 3. Letter from Hon. Elliott Abrams to Representative Jim Leach transmitting the answers to questions regarding the phrase "consistent pattern 4. Text of sec. 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended... (III) 19 21 24 152 |