The World - News from Oct. 23, 1985

Three congressmen announced plans to introduce legislation to impose a six-month suspension on Romania’s preferential trading status with the United States for what they called the Soviet Bloc nation’s abuse of human and religious rights. “Their record on human rights is shameful,” said Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.), who is to introduce the bill along with Reps. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio) and Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.). Smith said Romania’s rights violations “are the worst of any Soviet Bloc country.”