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First Anniversary of Leningrad Trial - Marked ''''''Pe"'"' -""
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ameri- write to Soviet authorities protest- mother of the 24-year-old nurse,
can Jewish Conference on Soviet inc , the treatment of Jews and de- will accompany the couple and
Jewry announced the inauguration nial of their right to emigrate. will appear in the U.S. on beha lf
of a major nationwide campaign His letter was the first to be pub- of the United Jewish Appeal.
In Olborg, Denmark, Soviet
to mark the first anniversary of lished in the West.
He was arrested in December Premier Aleksei N. _,,.Kosygin
the initial Leningrad trial on Dec.
1968 and convicted in May 1969 struck back at critics of his gov-
15, 1970.
This "show trial" ended in leng- on charges of slandering the USSR. I ernment's treatment of Jews and
challenged Israel to explain
thy labor camp sentences for He is married and has a daughter.
Jerry Goodman, executive direc- "why it creates so many diffi-
seven Jewish activists and death
sentences, later commuted, for two tor of the AJCSJ, said that the culties for those Soviet Jews who
others. The date coincides this conference is mailing out a spe- want to return to their father-
year with the third day of Hanuka. cial information kit to its entire I land."
The Soviet leader made his re-
Boris Kochubiyevsky the Soviet- membership
marks in reply to questions at a
The suggestion list urges that
Jewish engineer whose arrest in
press conference here following
1968 sparked the worldwide
special attention be given to the
three days of meetings with Danish
movement on behalf of Soviet
case of Sylva Zalmanson Kuz-• .government leaders and bitter
netsov,
who was sentenced to 10
Jews, reportedly was released
though peaceful protests by thou-
years in prison. Pregnant when
from prison last Saturday night
sands of Danish Jews and non-Jews
arrested, she lost her baby in a
upon completion of a three-year
labor camp. She has been denied against the denial of emigration
sentence.
The report said that immediately medical care for several serious rights and other rights to Jews
ailments and may not live long. in the USSR.
upon his release, Kochubiyevsky,
Asked to explain why Jews who
In Brussels, the International want to leave the USSR for Israel
now 37, applied for a visa to go to
Israel. Visa applications he had Labor Confederation has asked the are confronted with so many offi-
made prior to his arrest were re- Soviet Union to free Mrs. Kuznet- cial difficulties, the Soviet premier
sov. The text of a letter sent to said, "Everybody knows that a.
jected.
KocLubiyevsky was the first re- Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin growing number of Jews leave
ported Russian Jewish activist to several days ago was released by the Soviet Union nowadays and
the confederation, which has its all those who want to leave are
world headquarters here.
allowed to and are well treated."
Nehema Lifshitz, the Lithuanian- Kosygin insisted that there was
born Yiddish folk singer, made an no Jewish problem in Russia ex-.
impassioned plea Monday to cept that "born in the West."
America's United Nations Ambas-
Asked about the Leningrad hi-
sador George Bush for help in jack trial, he said there was a
getting her sister and members plot to hijack a plane at Leningrad
Each Way from Detroit
of her sister's family out of the Airport and it was punished in the
or to Detroit
Soviet Union.
USSR just as crimes are punished
Also Mexico, Caribbean, and all
Miss Liftshitz, who emigrated all over the world. Kosygin repeat-
Europe. Call Charter Flight
to Israel in 1969, joined a delega- ed that there were "not many"
tion of the Leadership Conference Jews asking for visas but those
Information Services
of National Jewish Women's Or- who did "got an answer very
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ganizations that visited Bush at soon."
the U.S. UN Mission headquarters
to ask him to raise the issue of
rights for Soviet Jews before the
world body.
The UN envoy later told the rep-
resentatives of nine national Jew-
ish women's organizations that
"things are happening" on the
Soviet Jewish issue as a result of
efforts- by his office and by 1JN
Secretary General U Thant.
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