Next Trial of Soviet Jews: Kishinev
NEW YORK (JTA)—The trial in
Kishinev of nine Jews linked by
the Russian authorities to the al-
leged June 1970 skyjacking attempt
will begin June 21, reliable Jewish
sources disclosed here. The trial
was supposed to have started May
26, but was postponed without ex-
planation.
The Jewish sources also report-
ed that the nine Jews convicted in
the second Leningrad trial last
month appealed their sentences
May 27.
The 35-year-old Russian Jewish
librarian Roiza Palatnik, who was
arrested for "anti-Soviet" activi-
ties in December and subse-
quently went on a hunger strike
to obtain a Yiddish interrogator,
will go on trial the middle of this
month, the sources said.
The Jewish informants report
that eight Kiev Jews tried to sub-
mit an anti-trial article to the
Soviet newspapers Pravda and Iz-
vestia. They were identified as
Israel Kleiner, Edvard Davidovich,
Anatoly Feldman, Israel Slobodsky,
Boris Krasniy, Igor Rais, Mark
Barboi and a person with the sur-
name Oretskiy. Kleiner was said
to have been told by the KGB
(secret police) that his act had
cost him his recently approved
exit visa.
Meanwhile, it was reported, the
Sverdlovsk authorities ended, on
May 23, their interrogation of
Valeri Kukui, a Jew accused of
"anti-Soviet" slander, who is said
to have publicized anti-trial peti-
tions.
A San Francisco attorney who
was in Russia during the recent
trials of Jews in Leningrad and
Riga, sharply criticized American
newspaper accounts of the trials
based on reports by Tass, the
Soviet news agency.
Ephraim Margolin, who specia-
lizes in criminal and constitutional
law, said: "I found this picture to
be completely distorted on the
basis of dozens of conversations
with friends and relatives of those
who are being tried."
Margolin, a national officer of
the American Jewish Congress, re-
ported on his two-week visit to the
Soviet Union, during which he
found himself being questioned by
the secret police in Riga and
threatened with deportation. He
claimed that in both the Leningrad
and Riga trials the Soviets used
their legal code which states that
the names of defense witnesses
must be provided to the prosecu-
tion (in order to make sure that
the witnesses would not app-ar.)
"In the Leningrad trial, ' he
.said, "several defense witnesses
---- were arrested in the eight days
before the trial started, while others
were sent out of town by their
employer, which is, of course, the
state."
Margolin reported that when
the witnesses returned and of-
fered to testify at a new trial,
if held, they "were told not to
speak of what happened under
threat of being fired from their
jobs."
"In contrast," the lawyer said,
"the prosecution provided police
and secret police witnesses who
testified on technical matters in
Riga, where a trial of four Jews
ended May 27."
Isaiah Averbuch, the fiance of
Ruth Aleksandrovich, one of the
defendants, was arrested five days
before the trial. "He was sentenced
the next morning under an admin-
istrative jail procedure. He was
not allowed an attorney or bail
and since the penalty is only 15
days under Soviet law, no appeal
is possible. In this way, Averbuch
at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
near the United Nateions head-
quarters.
Leaders of the ad hoc commit-
tee, Student Strike for Soviet Jew-
ry received greetings of solidarity
from Mayor John V. Lindsay,
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller,
and Conservative Senator James
L. Buckley.
In response to widespread con-
cern for information regarding
Jews in Soviet Russia, the Balti-
more Committee for Soviet Jewry
and others were prevented from has established a new telephone
attending the trial of his fiance," service to provide up-to-the-minute
Margolin said.
news 24 hours a day, Louis J. Fox,
Margolin said he returned from committee chairman, announced.
the USSR convinced of "the in-
Called "Soviet Jewry Newsline,"
credible bravery and determination
of a significant number of Russian
Jews to assert their culture in a
search for their Jewish identity."
He said he met young Jews in Mos-
cow, Riga and Leningrad "who
talked openly and freely of their
desire to live as Jews in Israel.
This despite the fact that their
phones were bugged, their apart-
ments under electronic surveillance
and all their moves monitored by
the secret police."
Margolin brought back with him
a copy of an open letter to Soviet
Communist Party Chief Leonid
Brezhnev signed by nine Kishinev
Jews, protesting the imprisonment
of friends there who are awaiting
trial. The letter, which included
the street addresses of the signers,
demanded the immediate release
of the prisoners and "that we all
be allowed to leave for our home-
land."
Jackson Urges Rogers to Tell
USSR Americans Outraged
at Oppression of Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of
Washington, has urged Secretary
of State William Rogers to "convey
to the Soviet government the sense
of outrage of the American people
at the senseless and inhuman op-
pression of the Jewish population
of the Soviet Union."
In a letter to Rogers, Jackson
recalled that last Dec. 29 "the Sen-
ate expressed its grave concern
over the injustices to which the
Jewish population of the Soviet
Union was then—and is now—sub-
jected," and that it "called upon
the President to convey to the
Soviet government the concern of
the American people."
Superior Court Judge George D.
Neilson sentenced seven Jewish
students to fines of $25 each or 10
days in jail on disorderly conduct
charges stemming from their take-
over of the Tass office here on
Nov. 20.
The seven pleaded guilty and
paid their fines. An eighth defend-
ant charged with disorderly' con-
duct in the same case did not ap-
pear in court. The charge against
her was dropped because she was
a juvenile.
In Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., a
regional convention of the Cana-
dian members of Bnai Brith
cabled Prime Minister Elliott
Trudeau, before his visit to the
Soviet Union, urging his inter-
cession with Soviet leaders in
behalf
of the nine convicted Jews
Rabbi Gorrelick to Give in Leningrad.
Impressions of Israel
It was learned that Trudeau told
The final meeting of the Kvutza reporters in Tashkent that he made
strong representations to Soviet
Ivrit — Hebrew
Premier Alexsei Kosygin on behalf
Cultural Group —
of Soviet Jews who wished to emi-
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grate to Israel, but Trudeau indi-
Saturday at the
cated his plea was not received
t home of Presi- .
warmly.
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make representations for Jews but
that the Soviet Union is also free
Rabbi Benja-
to follow its own policies. Kosygin
min Gorrelick
- will speak on
stated that large numbers of Soviet
Jews go to Israel but each case is
"Impressions of
judged on its own merit.
Israel," where he
More than 2,000 New York high
and his wife re-
school, college and yeshiva students
cently spent some
time.
Rabbi Gorrelick left their classrooms May 27 to
participate in a student strike for
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