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from any travel to the USSR "un-
til the Russians offer an apology
for their vulgar attempt to frighten
U. S. citizens into silence about
Soviet anti-Semitism."
In a telegrani- to Secretary of
State William Rogers, the AJC
•applauded the State Department's
rejection of a note from the Krem-
lin that warned of possible reprisals
against U.S. nationals for anti-
Soviet protest demonstrations here.
"Not one Soviet -citizen in the
U. S. has been injured or even en-
dangered by anti-Soviet protests
in this country," said Eleazar
Lipsky, chairman of the Congress'
commission on international af-
fairs.
• • •
Woodcock Asks Clemency
in Soviet Hijack Case
The Jewish Labor Committee an-
nounced in Detroit this week that
UAW President Leonard Wood-
cock issued a statement appealing
to the Soviet Union "to replace
severity with well-considered tem-
perance in the sentences involving
the defendants" convicted in the
Leningrad trial. He added: "We
share with other men,of good will
the belief that Jewish people
around the globe should be granted
the right to settle, when they wish,
in their historic homeland of Is-
rael. We call upon the Soviet
Union to open its gates to those
who wish to emigrate to their
chosen lands."
Woodcock also sent a telegram
to Anatole F. Dobrynin, Soviet
Ambassador to the U. S., on the
eve of the commutation of the
death sentences of two Jews in
the Leningrad trial, declaring:
"American workers feel severity
of sentence is miscarriage of jus-
tice. Similarity to the case of
Basque nationalists in Fascist
Spain whose death sentence the
Soviet government has protested
has struck many observers. We
appeal to the Soviet government in
the name of htfmanity and for the
sake of easing world tensions to
exercise maximum judiial clemency
and to commute the death sen-
tences."
strengthen the possibility of a
continuing brutal repression by
the Soviet regime against its
citizens. The freedom to protest
vigorously can not include or
tolerate acts of violence and ir-
responsibility."
Schwartz informed the Allied
Jewish Campaign meeting held
Monday night of the community's
action.
An appeal in support of just
rights for Russian Jewry was ad-
dressed to Secretary of State Wil-
liam Rogers by Governor William
G. Milliken.
Max M. Fisher, Rabbi Herschel
Schacter and Dr. William Wexler,
who conferred on the Russian-Jew-
ish situation last week with Sec-
retary of State Rogers and Presi-
dent Nixon, in a telegram to the
President, expressed their revul-
sion at attacks on Soviet installa-
tions in this country. They brand-
ed the men responsible for such
actions "reckless and dangerous."
• • •
Zalmanson To Appeal
Sentence; Feign Thanks
Kibbutz Friends For Help
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Lt. Wolf Zal-
manson will appeal the ten-year
prison sentence handed down last
week by a Soviet military tribunal
for his alleged role in a plot to
hijack a Soviet airliner, it was
learned today. His plans were dis-
closed by his father, Josef, in a
telephone call to relatives in Israel.
The elder Zalmanson said he was
permitted to visit his son, an engi-
neer officer in the Russian Army,
after sentence was pronounced. He
Being Self-Agreeable
said the young man asked Israeli
Duties are not performed for one duty—the duty of contenting
relatives to send him a Hebrew duty's sake, but because their 1 his spirit, the duty of making him-
primer so that he could study the neglect would make the man un- self agreeable to himself.—Mark
language while in prison. Zalman- comfortable. A man performs but Twain.
son's brother Isak, his sister Silva
and his brother-in-law, Edvard
Kuznetsov, were sentenced to se-
vere prison terms by a Leningrad
City Court last month. Kuznetsov
was originally sentenced to death
but the Supreme-Court of the Rus-
sian Federation later commuted
his sentence to 15 years at hard
labor and reduced the sentences
of several other defendants. Ac-
cording to his father, Zalmanson
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said he would appeal because he
has nothing to lose. Members of
Punch & Hoya De Monterey
Kibutz Bar Am said today that
they had received a cable of
thanks from former Major Grischa
also we stock
Feigin of Riga who was released
from a mental home recently.
Suerdieck
Te-Amo
Feigin, a much decorated hero of
World War II, was committed after
Rio
Minho
Cuesta
Rey
he returned his medals in protest
against Soviet anti-Jewish policy.
Jose
Martinez
Macanudo
His cable to his friends at Bar Am
said, "We all thank you. Our
hearts and souls are with you."
CLEAR HAVANA
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Social Worker Shortage
The Paul Baerwald School of
Social Work, which the JDC had
„first opened in Paris in 1949, was
re-established in Jerusalem at the
Hebrew University in 1958. To date
some 470 social workers have
graduated and gone to work in
various social agencies and min-
istries in Israel. And still there's
a shortage of social workers in
Israel.
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After the last hand...
Gershman, vice chairman of YPSL,
pointed out that "for many reasons
the fate of Soviet Jewry is closely
related to the welfare and security
of the state of Israel, for each
shares the same enemy in the So-
viet government."
Relating the plight of Czecho-
slovakia, the statement said: "We
have a great task of convincing to
do in order to make the reality of
this injustice apparent to Ameri-
can youth. The probiem is not sim-
ply that many young Americans
are ignorant of this injustice, but
that among left-wing so-called radi-
cal students there is a double
standard. They don't protest every
injustice but only some, and the
glaring omission from their list of
the Iron Curtain and indeed
" - -
Friday, January 15, 1971-15
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The JLC also supported an
effort by members of the Young
People's Socialist League to dis-
tribute on the Wayne State Uni-
versity campus 8,008 copies of a
flyer protesting the persecution
of Soviet Jewry.
The statement, signed by Carl
grievances is the plight of Soviet
Jewry and the related plights of
the Czech and Israeli peoples."
The organized Jewish cesium-
nity of Detroit expressed its op-
position to terrorism In demon-
strations against Soviet policy
in a telegram to President Nixon
signed by Alas E. Schwartz,
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federition, and Judge Law-
rence Gubow, president of the
Jewish Community Council. The
wire follows:
"We support the efforts of
Americans to express their re-
vulsion with the tYranny exer-
cised by Soviet authorities
against their Jewish cilium:. At
the same time we fully agree
with your efforts to curb ter-
rorism ag-inst Soviet installa-
tions and individuals in this
country. These deplorable Sc.
lions do nothing to mitigate the
tragic situation of Jews behind
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