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- 34 - body cannot stand aside when those rights are abused or neglected by any member state. New efforts are needed if this Assembly's Declaration of Human Rights, now 15 years old, is to have full meaning. And new means should be found for promoting the free expression and trade of ideas -- through better travel and communications, and through increased exchanges of people, books and broadcasts. For as the world renounces the competition of weapons, competi- tion in ideas must flourish --

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