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Exit Visas Reportedly Granted to Some Soviet Je ws
LONDON (JTA) — Informed
sources reported here Sunday that
a number of Soviet Jews. includ-
ing Yosif Kazakov, who have pub-
licly demanded the right to e:ni-
grate to Israel have been granted
exit visas and given 10 days to
leave the Soviet Union.
The sources said they include
members of a group of 39 Moscow-
Jews who signed and distributed
a letter to the Soviet Foreign Min-
istry denouncing offiical policies
toward Israel and declaring that
they were ready to "abandon ev-
erything we have to go to Israel,
even if we have to walk."
The sources gave the names of
four Jews believed to be among
those granted visas. They are Ju-
lius Telesin. Moisey Land:nan, Bo-
ris Sahlain and Kazakov, all of
whom have been described in the
government newspaper lzvestia as
"social outcasts" long known for
their "Zionist views."
Yosif Kazakov is the father of
Yasha Kazakov. a 23-year-old So-
viet Jewish emigre who recently
staged at eight-day hunger strike
in front of United Nations head-
quarters in New York to dramatize
his demand for emigration rights
for his family in Moscow- . The
younger Kazakov was permitted to
leave Russia tWo years ago and
settled in Israel.
Theodore C. Sorensen dis-
closed earlier that the Soviet
Union may become "more le-
nient toward Jewish emigration,
but only after the settlement of
the Middle East war. In a radio
interview here, the Democratic
state committee candidate for
U.S. Senate said Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko had
told him during his recent Mos-
cow visit that the U.S. was to
blame for the emigration im-
passe because of its alleged es-
calation of the Mid East conflict.
Sorensen said the minister w-as
"resentful" of his bringing up the
subject of emigration of Jew's and
other ethnic and religious minor-
ities.
Sorensen, who spoke at Nlos-
cow's Institute of the U.S.A. on
April 13, at the invitation of the
Soviet 'Academy of Science. said
in the radio interview he was
"rather encouraged" by "one small
ray of light" on the Mid East by
Gromyko. who he said agreed to
the possible "simultaneous" Israeli
withdrawal from the occupied ter-
ritories and its security against
subsequent Arab attack. The So-
viet Union has made Israeli with-
drawal a prerequisite to peace.
Declaring that President Nixon
is the "one man" in the West who
can save Soviet Jewry, New 'York
Rep. Richard Ottinger called upon
Mr. Nixon to make every effort to
bring to an end "the spiritual and
cultural genocide of the three mil-
lion Jews living behind the Iron
Curtain." In a telegram to Mr.
Nixon. the congressman urged the
President to use the current stra-
tegic arms limitation talks (SALT)
in Vienna and Big Four Nlid-East
conference to formally protest So-
viet anti-Semitism. "When the So-
viets complain about the alleged
atrocities committed by the Jews
of Israel against the Arabs," Ot-
tinger told the President, "let the
U.S. delegates protest in the
strongest possible terms the spiri-
tual and cultural genocide of the
three million Jews living hehind
the Iron Curtain." and "let the
U.S. delegate present a personal
p:ea from the President . . . for
the distribution behind the Iron
Curtain of unlimited spiritual arms
—prayer books, Bibles and total
religious freedom—to the 3 million
Jews within the Soviet Union."
The Jewish Labor Committee
has scheduled a Labor Confer-
ence In Support of Soviet Jewry
Monday in the Hotel New Yorker,
Charles S. Zimmerman, presi-
dent of the Jewish Labor Com-
mittee announced. He said the
conference is being held as re-
Hamner Describes Sou 31y llassacre
The massacre of 500 Vietnam-
ese civilians at Son My w-as neither
a freak incident nor an aberra-
tion in our conduct of the war, but
a disaster that is "endemic to
the American military commit-
ment in Vietnam." v.- rites Nev..
York Times reporter Richard
Hammer in -One Morning in the
War—The Tragedy at Son My,"
the first book to explore what
is still erroneously referred to
as the "My Lai" massacre of
March 16. 1968.
Hammer. who went to Vietnam
last December, exposed the gro-
tesque military blunder that re-
s"Ited in the massacre of the
innocent sub-hamlet of Xom Lang.
Only -three kilometers away, the
VC hearing the screams and gun-
fire_ quietly- deserted their strong-
hold at "v Khc. He now nresents
in the volume published by Cow-
ard McCann, a compassionate ac-
count in its full context. including
inforamtion on the killings that
took place that same morning in
the sub-hamlet of My Hoi (marked
on the US Army may as My Khe
4) by Bravo Company. Viewing
the massacres in light of the
events and attitudes that have
marked our conduct since the
escalation of the war, Hammer
attempts to shed light on "how
and why American soldiers sent
supposedly to protect and defend
a people could turn and slaughter
them."
Hammer's analysis is based on
the four burning questions that
still remain to be fully answered:
. . . How could the massacre be
kept a secret for so long—did no-
body outside Charley Company
and the survivors know about it?
Who gave the orders that pre-
cipitated the massacre? . . . Did
the army cover up and whitewash
the company in its initial investi-
gation? . . . Was the massacre
at Son My unique in the American
involvement in Vietnam?
After a brief history of Son My.
Hammer focuses on the terrible
irony that the attack on the sub-
hamlet of Xom Lang was a direct
result of the Americans' complete
disregard for Vietnamese place
names (on the US Army may.
Xom Lang was labeled My Lai 4):
their arrogant refusal to under-
stand or respect Vietnamese cus-
toms and rtaditions; and the grisly
attitude of many Americans, in-
cluding Captain Medina and Lieu-
, tenant Caney, that all Vietnamese
are the enemy, all sub-human
1 creatures whose life and property
are not worth considering.
Hammer describes the men of
1 , Charley Company just before the
, massacre. Exhausted and de-
' moralized after the Tet offensive.
they were grieving for buddies
recently killed in a war that for
them had swung from boredom to
frustration to horror. They had
]yearns that any eight-year-old
child or eighty-year-old grand-
mother could be the enemy, ready
to pull a gri,.nade from her vege-
table basket—and be considered
a hero for killing Americans.
Hammer grimly details the mas-
sacre itself, a phenomenon which
he describes as "murder by
mass psychosis." "Nlad dog
Medina." as his men nicknamed
him, was itching for action. He
had promised his men blood.
In the months following the mas-
sacre, although those involved
spoke freely and rumors abound-
ed. American military officials did
not want to know, or make any
efort to find out the cold facts.
In 1968, Hammer points out,
morale among the troops was at
an ebb; anti-war protests were at
a peak. To introduce such news
would have not only damaged
morale and fed the anti-war fur-
naces, but also called America's
role in Vietnam into question.
The original Peers panel. Ham-
mer writes, began not so much
to investigate the massacre. but '
to investigate and, to an extent.
discredit those revealing the mas-
sacre.
sponse to the Soviet Union's in-
creasingly virulent anti,JewiA
campaign. "The pro-Soviet and
anti-Israel statements made re-
cently by some Russian Jews in
a staged press conference in the
USSR are painfully reminiscent
of the "confessions" extracted
in the past highly publicized
trials of Russian leaders who fell
afoul of Stalin. No knowledge-
able person is deceived by these
statements."
The long-planned Exodus March
for Soviet Jewry in New York
turned into a half-mile-long pro-
test walk on behalf of equal rights
within the Soviet Union and the
right to emigrate to Israel if de-
sired. A spokesman for the march
estimated the turnout at "20,000—
at least." The police declined to
give an estimate.
The outpouring was essentially
youthful. although the marchers
ranged from the elderly- to lower-
grade-schoolers.
A 25-man delegation led by Rab-
bi Norman Lamm, chairman of
the New York Conference on So-
viet Jewry, which represents 34
adult organizations and agencies
and 19 participating youth groups,
the sponsoring group of the march,
assembled before the embassy to
read a statement expresisng to the
Soviet government "our utter dis-
may over the discriminatory treat-
ment accorded the Jewish people
of the Soviet Union." It called on
them to "live up to the guarantee"
of Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin in
December 1966 not to hinder emi-
gration. "You betray no other
cause than your own if you dis-
regard our pleas," the statement
continued. "Jew and non-Jew. So-
viet nationals and men of good-
will from every corner of the earth ,
demand justice now." From the
area of the embassy and Hunter
College, the demonstrators—infor-
mally dressed, carrying placards
and the names of Soviet Jewish
families (including "Kazakov"),
and chanting Hebraic tune s—
marched the mile and a half to
the L'N headquarters.
"Let My People Go." an appeal
to the Soviet government to permit
Jews to emigrate to Israel if they
wish, will be the theme of a mass
rally May 14 at Luna Park, the
largest stadium in Buenos Aires.
It wall be attended by delegates
from 15 Latin American countries
and is -expected to draw thousands
of adults and youths from Buenos
Aires and the provincial cities. A
300-member delegation is expected
from Brazil.
In Amsterdam, Jewish youths
demonstrating in front of the So-
viet Trade Mission during Pass-
over offered matzot and wine to
persons entering the building to
attend a Lenin centenary recep-
tion. They fixed posters to the rail-
ing quoting Lenin against anti-
Semitism. Another poster said.
"Marx would have been a second-
class citizen in Russia today."
LONDON (JTA)—V. N. Sorokin,
second secretary- of the Soviet
Embassy in The Hague has re-
fused to accept a resolution from
Rabbi Abraham Soetendorp asking
the Soviet Union to permit its
Jews freedom to develop their own
culture and pass on their tradi-
tions to their children. according
to reports received here.
The resolution had been adopted
Passover Eve at a meeting of
ZOA Jubilee Set in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — The 75th
national jubilee convention of the
Zionist Organization of America
will be held in Israel July 12-19,
1972, according to an announce-
ment made here by Leon Ilutovich,
executive director of the ZOA.
Previously, the ZOA held two
national conventions in Israel —
one in 1963 and another one im-
mediately following the Six-Day
War in July 1967. The 73rd ZOA
national convention will be held
Sept. 3-6 this year in New York
City and the 74th on Sept. 2-5
1971.
Michigen•has more than 70 de-
veloped winter sports areas.
20—FriTdHaEy,
2400 Jews and non-Jews in the
Old Sephardic Synagogue in Am-
sterdam.
Sorokin declared that the Soviet
Union did not discriminate against
any of its citizens, including Jews.
The resolution also included
pleas of Russian Jews to be allow-
ed to reunite with their families
in Israel and other countries.
The event was sponsored by four
Dutch Jewish congregations.
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