The World - News from Aug. 25, 1988

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has charged that the Reagan Administration is easing its pressure on the Soviet Union on Jewish emigration and other human rights issues. According to his aides, Rep. Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla.) charged in a recent letter to Secretary of State George P. Shultz that the State Department is going easy on the Soviets because of its desire for a quick conclusion to the current European security conference in Vienna. Fascell also suggested that the Administration may be backing off its human rights goals in hopes of getting another summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. State Department officials denied the charges.