Vodka 'Boycott' Threatened; Ask C arson Reject USSR Invitation 1 (Continued from Page 1) a "brotherhood relationship" be- tween their organizations. But this week JDL's general counsel, Ber- tram Zweibon, called Dr. Matthew "stupid" and described him to the JTA as a "an agent of Nixon." Zweibon denied that there was ever any "brotherhood" pact between JDL and NEGRO, only a "dia- logue" that he said would not be affected by Dr. Matthew's Moscow remarks because the JDL likes to "enlighten ignorant people." According to reports from Mos- cow, Dr. Matthew said he did not think the Russians had anything to apologize for as far as their acceptance of the Jewish people was concerned. "I can go on record as saying that the statistics (given) us about the number of Jewish people in professional and technical positions—if they - are correct, and I don't know of any- body who challenges them—(indi- cate) a high percentage of the Jewish people are in such posi- tions;" he said. "If that is correct, I would • say that Soviet society is offering Jewish people more than American society is offering black people." Maass said Dr. Matthew's • re- sponse was typical of "naive" people unfamiliar with the facts who hear "one side of the story." He said Dr. Matthew had listen- ed to Soviet officials but prob- ably had met no Jews. He said Dr. Matthew apparently does not understand that the complaints of Soviet Jews are not against the system but against the ob- stacles that prevent them from living Jewish lives. He said Dr. Matthew might alter his views if he had statistics on the lack of rabbis, Yiddish newspapers and Jewish culture institutions in Russia, if he- were aware of dis- crimination against Jews in uni- versities and employment in the Soviet Union. Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry threatened July 28 to picket Monsieur Henri Ltd., a leading wine and liquor importer, and certain "selected merchants," if the firm decided to market Rus- sian vodka in the U. S. Members of the SSSJ distributed leaflets out- side the St. Moritz Hotel, where Monsieur Henri officials were meeting with Soviet trade repre- sentatives to discuss an import deal. The leaflets claimed that Soviet Jews wishing to go to Israel lost their jobs and were the objects of threats and harassment of their children in schools. "Vodka, as the Russian national liquor, should be symbolic of good cheer between peoples," the leaf- let stated. "Unfortunately, observ- ing the situation of Soviet Jews, we as young Jews of the free world cannot feel cheerful. We can- not agree that 'business as usual' takes precedence over human rights. Regretfully, we reserve to ourselves the option at a later stage to engage in the legal picket- ing of Monsieur Henri wines and of selected merchants." Raiza Palatnik, the 35-year-old Jewish librarian from Odessa now serving a two-year prison term for alleged anti-Soviet activities, was sentenced to five days' solitary confinement for refusing to enter a filthy cell, Jewish sources re- ported. Miss Palatnik, who suf- fers from paralysis of her left arm, will appeal her sentence be- fore a court in Kiev on Oct. 5, the sources said. A prominent Soviet Yiddish poet has had his request for a visa to Israel rejected by the Soviet authorities, Jewish in- formants said. He is Meir Kha- ratz, 59, of Czernowitz, the Ukraine, who was imprisoned during the Stalin regime for what , the sources called "loyalty to Jewish values." His poems have occasionally appeared in So- vietish Heimland, the only Yid- dish periodical in the USSR, but he has been published mainly in leftist journals outside the So- viet Union, such as the Folk- stimme of Warsaw, the Neie Presse of Paris and the Yid- disher Kultur of New York. The sources also reported that Benito Borokhovin, a Jewish engi- neer from Moscow who was ar- rested June 14 after two searches of his apartment turned up Jew- ish materials, suffered a heart at- tack during his interrogation. Two Soviet Jewry organiza- tions have asked entertainer Johnny Carson to refuse publicly the invitation to him by Intourist- Aeroflot to televise his "Tonight Show" from Moscow for two weeks. The California Students for Soviet Jews, based in Los An- geles, said the invitation should be rejected "on the grounds that anti-Semitism is still rampant in the Soviet Union and the Jews wishing to go to Israel are not permitted to do so." Carson should accept only if the Soviet government "can promise him that all those Jews now in- carcerated in prison and other Jews wanting to go to Israel would be permitted to do so," said CSSJ chairman Zev Yaroslaysky. Refer- ring to Carson's questioning of whether a Russian audience would understand his jokes, Yaroslaysky declared: "This is no joking mat- ter. Soviet treatment of Jews is a Israel Protests Opening of Geneva El Fatah Office JERUSALEM (JTA)—A formal Israeli protest against the opening of an El Fatah Information Bureau in Geneva has been made to the Swiss government. The envoy citAd in his protest that announce- ment by the Swiss government after a murderous attack by Arab guerrillas on an El Al plane at Zurich's airport three years ago that no political activity by Arab terrorist groups would be per- mitted nor would they be allowed to organize cells in Switzerland. The foreign ministry here said it had not yet received a reply to the protest but the Israel Radio correspondent in Switzerland said the Swiss government had declared that the El Fatah office was an agency connected with the United Nations bodies which have head- quarters in Geneva and that it would not conduct any propaganda outside the UN buildings and dele- gations to sessions in the build- ings. deadly serious matter of the strug- gle of a people to survive. If Carson goes to Moscow to tell jokes he will not be remembered favorably among those who strug- gled for freedom when Soviet Jewry had their backs to the wall." Yaroslaysky r e c a l l e d that, "knowing Carson's concern for other people's rights," he wrote the NBC-TV star a year ago ask- ing that he study the situation of Soviet Jews. * * * TEL AVIV (JTA) — Another planeload of Jewish immigrants from Russia landed here July 27, the second to arrive in four days. Most of the newcomers were from the Riga area. One of them, Mrs. Rose Shapsowitz, 60, a pharma- cist, was met by her sister, whom she had not seen in 33 years. Markish, cameraman Semyo Mak Cinematographers Organization for and others." Kalik, once praised requesting permission to go to Is- for his ability, is now in official rael. On July 28, 10 Jewish women disgrace. The 44-year-old director staged a silent 61/2 hour vigil out- has been expelled from the Soviet side the entrance to the festival. 6—Friday, August 6, 1971 NEW CADILLAC? , SEE OR CALL ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM Pre-Holiday Special — Personalized NEW YEAR CARDS 100 Folder $ 55° * * LONDON (JTA) — About 40 adults and students occupied the office of Tass, the Soviet news agency, here July 26 to protest the mistreatment and arrests of Jews in the Soviet Union. 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