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WHEREAS, the City of Fort Worth is a dues-paying active member
of the National League of Cities; and,
WHEREAS, the National League of Cities is advertising and promoting
a twenty day "Special Journey through the Soviet Union on the Famous Trans-
Siberian Railway"; and,
WHEREAS, the government of the Soviet Union has shown a callous
disregard for human rights as evidenced by the atrocity committed in murder-
ing the passengers and crew of a Korean Air Lines civilian passenger plane;
and,
WHEREAS, this is not the first time the government of the Soviet
Union has murdered innocent people such as in Afghanistan, Poland, Hungary,
and Czechoslovakia, in addition to millions of its own citizens;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the City Council of Fort Worth urges
the National League of Cities to immediately cancel plans for the "Special
Journey Through the Soviet Union on the Famous Trans-Siberian Railway" and
to further refrain from any such activities until the government of the
Soviet Union complies fully with the demands of the President of the United
States in regards to the atrocity committed against the people of South Korea
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PASSED AND APPROVED this day of , 1983.
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