THE. DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 14, 1972-19

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EVES ON NIXON: One should never predict Soviet policy with
regard to any matter, especially with regard to Jewish emigration
frail the USSR.
Qualified experts on Soviet affairs are, therefore, adopting a "wait
and see - attitude on the future of Jewish emigration from the Soviet
Union. They have 'established that the Kremilin decision to permit
emigration to Israel was not a major political decision but a pragmatic
one which could undergo changes under certain circumstances They
are inclined to believe that during the months of April and May.
increased Jewish emigration will continue, so as not to provoke any
commotion on the eve of President Nixon's visit to Moscow. They are
of the opinion that the Kremlin will seek to avoid Jewish protests in
Moscow, as was the case during the last Party Congress.
What will happen to Jewish emigration after Nixon's visit to
Moscow is a different question. In the opinion of the experts, a good
deal depends on whether Nixon, during his summit talks with the
Soviet rulers, will lay sufficient stress on the issue. At present, high :
-.ate Department officials are not in a position to even answer the
question whether Jewish emigration from the USSR will come up for
discussion in Moscow.
Information reaching here from Moscow through reliable channels
indicates that Nixon's visit to the Soviet capital is awaited by Jews in
the Soviet Union with utmost interest. Many prn their hope on this
visit in anticipation that it will result in easing emigration for them.
So far. about 75 per cent of those who applied for exit visas have
either been refused or received no answer on the fate of their applica-
tions. I learned authoritatively that on January 1 there were about
60.000 applications submitted to the authorities by Soviet Jews seeking
emigration on which no action has yet been taken.
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SOVIET SIGNALS: The dispersion by Soviet police of Jews during
the Passover services from the synagogues in Moscow. Kiev and Minsk
—three of the largest Jewish-populated cities in the Soviet Union—has
provoked even greater concern for Soviet Jewry among Jews in the
United States. Moscow is the capital of Soviet Russia, Kiev is the
capital of Soviet Ukraine, and Minsk is the capital of Soviet Byelo-
russia. It is no coincidence that the police swooped on the synagogues
in these three capitals, and chose the Passover holiday to do it.
American Jewish community leaders consider it a bad omen. They
see this as a coordinated action against the synagogues, an indication
of Soviet determination to keep the Jews in the Soviet Union frightened:
It is very possible that similar action was taken by local Soviet police
in other cities where the Jews have no way of communicating
their troubles to the outside world.

April 22 and 23

Egypt Breaks Ties With Jordan

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt's
olficial Middle East News Agency
quoted by Beirut radio, announced
that Egypt has broken off diploma-
tic relations with Jordan.
It said that the decision to break
relations with Jordan was taken
at a cabinet meeting April 6, pre-
sided over by President Anwar
Sadat.
Beirut radio linked the announ-
cement to the Palestinian Congress,
a Fatah-sponsored gathering,
which opened in Cairo. Jordan for-
bade its subjects to attend the con-
gress.
West Bank leaders who received
invitations were warned by the Is-
raeli military government that
they would not be re-admitted to
the West Bank if they attend.
Observers here viewed the
break with Amman as more of a
demonstrative gesture by Egypt
than a permanent rupture be-
tween the two countries. They
said its apparent motivation was
to show the Arab world that the
initiative for solving Arab prob-
lems remains with Egypt and
cannot be usurped by anyone
else.

. Relations between the two coun-
tries have deteriorated in the past
almost to the point of rupture,
hut diplomatic relations were never
broken by either side.
Most of the serious differences
in the past occurred before the
Six-Day War. Last summer, how-
ever. Egypt and Iraq sided with
the Palestinian guerrillas vt ho were ,
being driven out of Jordan by .1
Hussein's troops.
Egypt did not sever relations
but sought to play a mediator's
role between Hussein and the ter-
rorists.
Meanwhile. Soviet Premier
Alexei N. Kosygin signed a 15-
year friendship and defense
treaty with Iraq, marking the
Soviet's first major diplomatic
advance into the Arab world be-
yond Fopt.
The Iraqi news agency said the
pact provides for Soviet military
aid to Iraq and regular consulta-
tion and promotion of relations.
particularly in politics, oil and
trade Renewable every five years
after its first 15 years, the treaty
bound the two nations to "perma-
nent, unbreakable friendship."

Anti-Shehita Bill Halted in Congress

The bill also would have limited
NEW YORK — A "h umane
slaughter - bill, which would have the sale of "ritually slaughtered
meat"
to members of the Jewish
severely curtailed the practice of
Shehita, has been dropped by its faith exclusively.
Efforts to fight the bill were
sponsor, Congressman Kenneth J.
Gray of Illinois, after he was ad- initiated last February by Rabbi
Moshe
Sherer, executive president
vised by Jewish groups of the im-
of Agudath Israel of AmeriCa.
plications of such a measure.
Congressman Sidney R. Yates of
Congressman Gray's bill, which
At•ts standards for "humane Illinois played a key role in the
slaughter. ' exempted Shehita only negotiations. which included Con-
on the grounds of accommodating gressman W. R. Poage, chairman
a religious minority, thereby im- of the Ilouse Committee on Agri-
plying that Shehita is inhumane.. culture.

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