Fire Kills Woman in Sol Hurok Offices;
Offi • Six Injured
THE DETROIT JEWISH
0--friikrb haw/ 28.1972
NEW YORK (JTA)—A "suspi-
cious" fire that broke out Wednes- urged President Nixon to support Center and Martin Rittman of ' them into action."
the right of Soviet Jews to emi- , Flint, a junior college student.)
day morning in the office of im-
affirmed by the United I
200 Immigrants Arrive in Israel
,
ProL Dan Jacobs of Miami
pressario Sol Hurok and killed a
TEL AVIV (JTA)—More than
University in Ohio called the re-
woman employe. The fire has been
200 immigrants arrived here from
cent acceleration of Jewish emi-
condemned by the Jewish Defense
The resolution—introduced by
the Soviet Union, Iran and the
gration from the Soviet Union
GARAGE DOOR
League and the State Department.
State Senators Sam Klaver, Eu-
United States. The largest group
"essentially a victory for the
Six other persons were injured.
gene Maloney and Terry Carpen-
was from the USSR. On Jan. 18
efforts of young people."
and Hurok narrowly escaped seri-
ter—charged that the Soviet gov-
cus injury.
Dr. Jacobs cautioned, however, more than 300 Soviet Jews arrived
ernment was "persecuting" The
A second fire damaged another
that the exodus of Jews must be on a single flight...
entintRY'Vminorities "and 'tdiscriari-
Among –the new arrivals from
management agency nearby. .
regarded:As, a tentative- 'slevelo
lusting" against them in eultural,
Hurok has managed the Ameri-
meet that could be reversed with thi' Soviet 45nites was a group
educational and -religious areas.
from
Odessa. Absorption Ministry
can tours of Soviet artists under
adverse 'effects on the Jews re4.
Leis than EPer cent of Nebraska's
Colt Evenings Until 9
workers were divided into three
various cultural exchange pro-
mauling in the USSR.
population is Jewish.
353-3284
grams with the Soviet Union. The
He said the large-scale depar- teams—one speaking Russian, one
• • •
Iranian
and
one
English.
JDL has denounced these tours
ture of Jews actually weakened
because of Soviet treatment of Scheuer: Soviet Discrimination
dissent in the Soviet Union because
Against Jews MI-Pervasive -
Jews.
it is "the most vocal Jewish pro-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Rep. James testors who were being allowed to
New York Fire Department of-
CADILLAC
ficials said the blaze was suspi- Scheuei (D. N.Y.), who was ex- depart."
OR CALL
cious but had no immediate evi- pelled from the Soviet Union - last
The- White House, affirming its
week after visiting with Jewish support of "the right of free emi-
dence of arson or bombing.
scientists in the home of one of gration," told the conference that
The fire was preceded by an-
them, described Soviet discrimina- it welcomes student-initiated ef-
enymons phone calls to various
tion against Jews as "all-perva- forts in behalf of Jews in the
news media. The callers said of
WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC
Russian culture, "This culture sive."..But Soviet Jews, he said, Soviet Union.
CALL- BUS. MI 4-1930
RES. 642-6836
destroys millions of Jews. Cul- "aren't depressed"; rather, their
"We sympathize with Jews and
1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM
'raw courage" in demanding their others in the Soviet Union who
thrall bridges of friendship will
not be built over the bodies of rights is "absolutely inspiring."
have sought through legal means
I Scheuer said at a press confer- to exercise (their) rights," Leon-
Soviet Jews. 'Never again.'"
"Never again" is a slogan used
here that his expulsion was ard Garment, special consultant to
by the JDL.
i a "pointless, irrational, mindless the President, said.
JDL Vice Chairman Bert Zwei-- act," and stated that he Would be
Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.),
bon condemned the fire and sug- "horrified" if "this absurd little a•candidate for the presidency is-
gested that Soviet provocateurs incident" should become an in- sued a statement along the same
For the Look oi today
could have been respOnsible in i ternational issue and sabotage lines as that of the White House.
President Nixon's summit rneet- He noted that he co-sponsored the
order to discredit the JDL.
in Black & Grey
"We depore an attack of this ings .
Brock-Jackson resolution cur-
• Cut Velvet • Sell Bottoms
He suggested that the Soviet
in all colon
kind on an . American organize-
rently before Congress, calling on
tion," Zweibon said. "We know I authorities had acted as they did
the President to raise the issue of
• Flares • Boots
the case with which telephone calls to reassert Soviet strength in
Soviet Jewry at the highest levels
Colored Shirts • Formal
can be made to throw suspicion the light of Nixon's upcoming when the President visits the USSR
Knit Shirts
on an organization by the use of a visit to China as well as to the in May.
Ask about special wedding rates
slogan."
USSR. The Soviet authorities
Glenn Richter, national. coordi-
for a party of 4 or more
State Department spokesman I wanted
. to
. show they are not nator of the Student Struggle for
` permissive" but the maintain- I Soviet Jewry, said student activists
Charles Bray said, "if these acts
Tuxedo Sales & Rental
are directed against American-
ers of a "rigorous discipline" had to move the adult community
Soviet cultural exchanges they
because they believe they are "off its apathy." He urged stu-
must be deplored by all who have
threatened from without." dents to "push the Jewish organi-
Complete line
Scheuer said he regretted that zations from within where you
an interest in better relations in
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of Men's Suits &
( 1st aka Soolit of Maple ow Weedwaed)
' delegation were "care- can, and where you cannot, do
e and his
the world. The act is reprehen-
Sportcoats
sible."
fully shepherded and carefully iso- enough yourselves to embarrass
Birmingham, Mich.
Hurok, 83, was treated for smoke lated" and that "we never spoke
with the blood-and-guts people."
inhalation and released from the
hospital after the fire gutted his • • •
20th floor offices in a 40-story sky- Quebec Separatist Leader
scraper.
Apologizes for Defending USSR
The dead woman was- his re- Against Anti-Semitism
ceptionist, Iris Jones, 27, who po- I MONTREAL (JTA)—Rene
Le-
lice officials said was a victim of vesque, leader of the separatist
smoke poisoning.
Parti Quebecois, has apologized
a
Many people on the top floors of publicly for having recently de-
[hi
the building broke windows to es- i fended the Soviet Union against
cape suffocation after all but one charges of anti-Semitism.
elevator broke.
Levesque, who writes a daily
The other agency, - Columbia column in the French-languages
Artists Management, Inc., also has I Journal De Montreal, had written
booked Soviet artists in the coun- during Soviet Premier Alexei Ko-
try. The most recent is the Osipov sygin's visit to Canada- last No-
Balalaika Orchestra, which is now vember that "Jews are slandering
on tour.
the Soviet Unibrr if they' dare -corn-
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Dare the situation of Jews in the
Kishinev Authorities Encourage
Soviet Union with that under the
Anti-Jewish Feelings
I Nazis."
sI
Ameng Moldavians
In his column several days ago,
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Na- titled, "Star of David—An Apol-
YET INFORMAL ... BARE FEET AND SPORT SHIRTS.
tional Conference on Soviet Jewry ogy," the Quebec leader said,
LOCATED ON THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SECTION OF
has learned that the Kishinev au- "The Jewish question in the
USSR
BEACH ON ACAPULCO BAY. ENJOY LAZY DAYS,
thorities are trying to win over exists and is welding dangerously
BIKINIS, BLUE PACIFIC WATER AND ROMANTIC
the local populace by encouraging together ancient prejudices to the
IN THE WARM SUN
the Moldavians.
MOONLIT NIGHTS. THERE'S A FRESH-WATER POOL
most explosive complications of
OF ACAPULCO
oday.
Moldavians are getting all the
WITH A BAR IN IT. A NIGHT CLUB THAT SWINGS.
86° AVERAGE *
government positions and it is dif-
He said that he owed his change
TEMPERATURE
ELEGANT DECOR AND ROOMS WITH MARBLE
ficult for Jews to get jobs. Even of views to documentation pro-
FLOORS AND BALCONIES. WATER SPORTS, DEEP
Jews with professional degrees are vided by Alan Rose, national di-
having a difficult time in winding rector of the Canadian Jewish Con-
SEA FISHING, WATER SKIING, SCUBA AND SKIN
employment and, when they do gress. He said that the documen-
DIVING. TOUR ACAPULCO BAY 150 FEET IN THE
succeed, it is invariably jobs of tation made him 'aware that Mos-
PER POISON Basis Dial.
_ AIR IN A PARASAIL.
cow has allowed the purist anti-
lower rank.
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Jewish students, the confer- I Semitism to surface."
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ence reported, are having diffi-
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culty entering Institutions of
Jewish Campus Leaders Hold
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higher education and they often
Strategy Conference on - -
have to give bribes to be ad-
Issue of Soviet Jews
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mitted.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (JTA)-
The conference also reported that About
200 Jewish campus leaders
half of a Jewish cemetery on Kal- from 75 colleges and universities
byshev St. in Kishinev was turned all over the country held a three-
into a public park. People walk day "strategy conference" here
on the tombstones. The portion on the issue of Soviet Jews.
which is still a cemetery is not
(Participants froiTi the Michigan
,
- t or rIFIT ChE Of
being properly kept up.
area were Herbert Konstam of
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Detroit and Alan Weiss of Oak
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Nebraska Legislature Urges
BIRMINGHAM
Park, both students at Michigan
Nixon to Support USSR Jews'
State University; Gary Huber and
Right to Emigrate
WON DEPLAN C
Erica Raphael of the University
WESTLAND
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