rez nev s aris Visit Draws Crow
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Mrs. Molly Renert, a resident
fiscated and that KGB (secret po - to -join him there soon.
of lice)_ agents copied the names o f 4 Jews in. Soviet Tour Group
their
Russian contacts:
Kiryat Hayim, flew to Paris to
to U.S.; No Jewish Contact OK'd
petition the Soviet leader on behalf Kosygin ties Exodus
- WASHINGTON (JTA)—A visiting
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of her son who is imprisoned in to Middle East Peace
Soviet tour group, four of whose
Czernowitz for "Zionist" activities.
OTTAWA (JTA)
Premier 11 members are Jews, will not
Jean Pierre Bloch, president of Alexei N. Kosygin made it clear meet with Anierican Jewish repre-
the International League Against during his visit here that substan- sentatives, on, orders of the Soviet
Anti-Semitism, promised to try to tial Jewish emigration to - Israel Embassy.
An -embassy official said Tuesday
deliver her letter to Brezhnev.
from the Soviet. Union was condi-
French Jewish leaders who at- tional on peace being achieved in that the group would not have suf-
tended an unprecidented meeting the Middle East. He made that ficient time during its five-city
Oct. 20 with Soviet Ambassador statement at a closed parliamen- schedule, although it has been
Piotr Abrassimov at the ambassa- tary session at which members of here since Sunday and was invited
dor's invitation, expressed the opin- the House of Commons' external to address a public meeting. Tues-
ion that the Soviet Union may have affairs and defense committes day night sponsored by the -George-
uestioned him closely on the con- town (University) International
begun to recognize the magnitud
and seriousness of the problem of ditions of Jews in the USSR and Student House Organization The
his
government's policy toward m - nt',15; was canceled after . 15
Soviet Jews. That was the impres-
minutes because of interruptions
sion of Prof. Addy Steg, president them.
Kosygin's replies were relayed by members of the Jewish Defense
of the Representative Council of
League.
to
the
press
by
Ian
Wahn,
chair-
French Jews. But Henrie Bulawke,
president of the leftist Union of man of the external affairs com-
The interruptions began after
Former Jewish Resistance Fight- mittee.
Valerian S. Nesterov, the Soviet
Kosygin
said:
"There
are
no
re-
ers, told the JTA that "many ques-
cultural exchange counselor here,
tions still remain unanswered; the strictions to emigration except one. announced that one of the -Jewish
problem has not been solved." Israel is occupying Arab lands and members of the visiting delegation
Abrassimov frankly appealed to there will be no peace in the Mid- was absent. -
the French Jews to abstain from dle East until Israel withdraws to
"Cot Gen_ Daiid Dragunsky had
demonstrations during the visit of its original boundaries. We don't a previous engagement. He is not
Brezhnev.
want to supply soldiers to Israel's in prison," Nesterov explained. ID
Abrassimov was obviously at army." He said that, by-and-large, the ensuing laughter, he corrected
pains to "soften up" his guests. He the 'Soviet Jews applying for emi- the last phrase to "He is not
related his chilldhood in a purely gration were of military age and present"
Jewish district of Vitebsk where, had undergone military training
The meeting was adjourned when
he said, he learned to speak Yid- and on going to Israel would in all a smoke bomb exploded in the hall.
probability
join
in-
the
army
of
an
dish fluently. He spoke of his mili-
Students shouted "Never again"
tary service during World War II "aggressive power." "When peace and raised a banner bearing a
when "I went to the front with my will come, - the situation will radi- swastika and a hammer and sikle.
three best friends, Levin, Berman cally change," Kosygin declared.
The Jews in the delegation ate
and Rosenblum." The Soviet am- Asked what he meant by peace, Dragunsky, a much-decorated war
bassador stressed that the USSR the Soviet Premier replied, fulfill- hero; Dr. Uri Gristman, director
was the first state to recognize Is- ment of Resolution 242 of the Se- of the Moscow Research Ocologi-
rael in 1948 and declared that Rus- curity Council.
cal Laboratory; Samuel Z f v s.
sia "never in the past and present
At another point, Kosygin said, deputy director of the, Institute of
and will never in the future deny "Do, you want me to give you the State and Law of the Soviet Aca-
Israel's right to exist as a free and number of those who have applied demy of Sciences and a member
independent state." He said Jews for re-entry?" But he gave no fig- of the governing board of the In-
were free to leave the Soviet Un- ures. He mentioned 500 Russians stitute of Soviet-American Rela-
ion under existing Soviet law but who have -applied to emigrate to tions in Moscow; and Vladimir
"only Jews who might strengthen Canada but did not indicate vibeth- Peller, chairman of a coleilive
Israel's military potential are not er any of them were Jews. Some farm.
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allowed to go." According to members of the two House commit;
The American Jewish Con-
Abrassimov, "there are at least tees judged Kosygin to be favor- ference on Soviet Jewry said that
some 60,000 top scientists and tech- ably inclined toward considering it had received an unconfirmed
nicians of Jewish origin in the earlier proposals for the reunifi- report that 92 Jews were arrest-
Soviet Union. They know all of our cation of Soviet Jews with their ed in Moscow in an attempt to
secrets."
families in Canada, the Jewish deliver a petition to the_ Com-
He added that the arrival of Telegraphic Agency was told. The munist Party Central Committee.
60,000 such people in Israel, who proposals were' submitted to Kosy-
The 92 Jews had come from six
together with their families total gin in Moscow last May by Premier cities and had been arrested after
300,000, -"would not only strengthen Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
a delegation- of five had gone inside
to an unbelievable degree Israel's
Asked by the MPs about the ma- the party headquarters.
military potential, it would weaken jority of ,Jews who wish to remain
At least 10 others from Kau-
that of the Soviet Union."
in the Soviet Union but demand naus, -Lithuania were taken from a
Forty-five intellectuals, includ- equal rights, Kosygin recited the train on the way to Moscow, and
ing four Noble Prize winners, is- names of high-ranking Soviet civil- several others were picked up in
sued a joint open letter call ng ian and military officials of Jewish Moscow streets.
upon the Soviet Union to release _origin. Asked about the alleged
A Russian Jewish emigre whose
prisoners from jail, lift cultural denial of Jewish cultural rights in husband has been kept from her
restrictions and permit Russia's the USSR, he retorted, "We have by the Russian authorities fOr 21
a Jewish theater, I don't think months appealed for his release
Jews to freely leave their coun-
there is any in Canada." In his re- personally to Secretary General
try.
The 45 included Noble Prize win- marks, Kosygin contended that Thant. The emigre, Mrs. Rita Gluz-
ners Jean-Paul Sartre, Rene Cas- Soviet Jewish emigration was on man, was introduced to Thant by
sin, Alfred Kostler and Andre the increase.
Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah,
Lwoff. This appeal provoked the
LONDON (JTA)—Two non-Jew- who earlier presented the UN lead-
anger of the "France-USSR Friend- ish poets, W. H. Auden and Steph- er with additional petitions from
ship 4.eague" which, in a counter en Spender, and the non-Jewish Soviet Jews and the first copy of •
communique, termed the signa- sculptor Henry Moore have joined a new Israeli coin reading "Let My
tories of the appeal "bearers of a with pianist Artur Rubinstein and People Go."
policy which was characteristic of violinist Yehudi Menuhin in urging
Ruth Aleksandrovich, recently
fascism and Nazism."
an emigration visa for the wife of • released from the Potma labor
This, despite the fact that among a noted Soviet Jewish sculptor. camp after completing a one-
the signabiries are well-known The celebrities sent a joint letter year prison sentence for alleged
leftist figures, Inc:Lading Vercors, to the Soviet ambassador here, anti-Soviet activities, -will leave
the former resistance, poet.
asking him to convey their plea to
Russia for Israel next Thursday,
Two American Jewish couples the Kremlin.
her mother said here.
who arrived here from -Moscow
They referred to 22-year-old Ga-
Mrs. Rivka Aleksandrovich said
said they were expelled - from the lina Zlotnik, whose husband, sculp- she got the news from her daugh-
Soviet Union after being, detained tor Aleksander Zlotnik, 31, i s here ter by phone. The 24-year-old
by police at: 'filoscew- airpqit, in an effort to free her.
nurse, one of five Jewish defend-
stripped and- searched.-1 Mr. and-
Lord •Janner, a Jewish member ants in the Riga trial, was granted
Mrs. Bert Braverman and Mr. and of Parliament, has taken on his an exit visa shortly after her re-
Mrs. Bernard Alpert of Highland case and had, asked an unidentied lease. But she delayed her de-
Park, EL, said taped and filmed British sttesman to intervene with parture because her fiance, Isaiah
records of their three-week visit the Russians on her behalf. Zlotnik Averbuch, had trouble getting his
to the Soviet Union which includ- left Moscow recently at the insist- visa.
ed interviews with Jews in Mos- ence of his wife to live in Israel.
According to Mrs. Aleklandro-
cow, Leningrad and Kiev were con- 4he told him she hoped to be able -vich, Averbuch finally received hit
rs
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exit visa last Wednesday: The eral - :of -,-
couple plans to be Married in .said --Ike ',coMPOSitioir of , R ussian
immigration 15:: .4"Ninginie- The fam-
Israel. _
ilies ardvIM4-':alw linger=-than be-
450 Jews Arrive in Israel; .
- fore
:and contain fewer!-acaemdic-
Many Are From Soviet Union
Lank
and aiine'i4aleb* -
TEL AVIV (JTA) —A total of
450 immigrants arrived aboard
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and Iran. They brought one of the
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