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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 2, 1972-11
Soviet Authorities Clamp Down
on Activists During Nixon Visit
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o L•rael a year
lei' behind
ass arrested earlier—was held her son-in-law: his wife. Mosha:
otter asking permission to demon- and their two sons. Aleksander
'trate at the Kremlin Plaza. r and Leonid.
Other Jewish activists taken into
Six American scientists and so-
custody by the authorities include cial scientists joined her in pro-
Roman Rutman, Victor Polsky, testing the USSR's Jewish policy.
Boris Odor/. Vladimir Lebov, The scientists were volunteering
Valentine Prussakov and Vladimir to take the places of the six Jew-
Prestin. ish scientists arrested Sunday in
Prof. Herman -Branover of Riga Moscow on the eve of President
has gone into hiding after being Nixon's arrival. Those volunteer-
accused of killing a child with his ing included Prof. Yitzchak Green-
car, it was reported by the Na- berg of Yeshiva University; Zvi
tianal Conference on Soviet Jewry, Szubin and Joseph Danto, City
which called the charge prepos- ! College; Philip Baum, American
terous. They said Prof. Branover, Jewish Congress: Lester Macktez,
40. was called to the police sta- Bnai Brith: and Shoshana Ep-
tion and released with instruc- stein. Women's American ORT.
tions to appear in court, but that
Addressing the executive com-
he disappeared instead.
, mittee of the National Women's ,
Last week, he was asked to sign League of the United Synagogue
a letter declaring that he would of America, Mrs. Serafina Kamin-
not attempt to focus attention on sky, whose husband is in a Rus-
his denied request to emigrate to sian jail serving a five-year sen-
Israel, while Presiden Nixon was tence, said her husband was im- •
in Moscow, and pledging not to prisoned on charges of "anti-So-
leave Riga. He refused to sign the viet activity" simply because he
letter of obligation and was sub- had studied Hebrew and Jewish
seluently detained on a daily history. and printed a Hebrew
basis by the KGB. textbook.
Prof Branover, an eminent
Mrs. Mind! Weinger, whose
physicist, has been unemployed brother-in-law is also incarcerated.
since he applied to emigrate to said the Soviet Union jailed those
Israel 14 months ago. who considered themselves to he
Sources disclosed that the nu- Zionists, but that the Russian gov•
merous appeals to Nixon from ernment will not break their spirit.
Jews all over the Soviet Union in- The Zionists have opened the eyes
eluded one signed by four Khar- of other Jews to an identification
kov Jews who charged that Soviet with Israel, she said
authorities were forcibly prevent-
In Jerusalem, some 400 recent
ing their "repatriation" to Israel Jewish immigrants from the So-
and thus denying them a basic viet Union and Israelis partici-
human right. paled in a hunger strike at the
In New York, the 70-year-old Western Wall to call President
mother-in-law of Vladimir Slepak Nixon's attention to the struggle
appealed to Soviet- authorities to for Jewish emigration rights and
`- free her children." the arrests of Jewish activists in
Mrs. Bertha Roshkaysky, went the Soviet Union.
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Muscow Mayor Says Jews Working
in Defense Industry Cannot Emigrate
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
the Soviet Union cannot give per- '
JTA Washington Bureau Chief
mission to those who work in the
MOSCOW (JTA)—The mayor of defense or some other secret ac-
Moscow, V. F. Promyslov, told a tivities.
In any case, he added. anyone
news conference that Jews in the
Moscow district who are not en- who wants to know about Jews
gaged in sensitive military work need just walk the streets of Mos-
may apply for and obtain visas to cow and talk to the Jews.
The mayor added that he under-
emigrate to Israel.
The mayor made-his statement stood that in Israel there are 300
in reply to a question after he had Jews who wish to return to the
spoken on Moscow's potential Soviet Union but are being pre_
growth. It is believed to he the vented by Israeli restrictions.
According to a report issued
first time that a Soviet official had
publicly said at a forum like a only last week by the U.S. Con-
news conference that the govern- gress. only about 50 of the approxi-
ment will not permit defense in- mately 13,000 Jews who had cm'.
grated from the Soviet Union to
dostry employes to emigrate,
The restriction has been made Israel last year have asked to re-
known indirectly. the Jewish Tele- turn: of these. only 11 are know n
to have successfully returned to
granhic Agency was informed.
the USSR.
Promyslov, however. neglected
Despite the penalties of job
to say that, unlike the under-
loss and classification as "para-
standing in the United States of
- the desire among Jews to
sites.
classified defense personnel, the
emigrate is spreading and now
Soviet defense industry em-
includes intellectuals and scien•
braces a wide variety of occu•
lists. a knowledgable source well
potions, including chemists.
acquainted with Moscow told the
physicists, engineers and ma-
JTA.
thematicians not directly identi-
Some wish to leave. he said, be-
lied with military projects. Many
cause
of Zionist convictions, others
Jews hold such occupations,
knowledgeable sources here said, because they underwent . an anti-
lieides the enormously compli- yemitic experience. But the much
cated bureaucratic documentation wider belief is that anti-Jewish
required from a potential emigre, feeling in the Soviet Union is pre-
an applicant must obtain an ac• venting cultural activities for Jew:
ceptable reference from his em- like that encouraged for other no-
ployer. Such an act is looked upon tionalities.
All this. JTA was told. has a
as treason and the employe loses
his job. Left without visible sup - snowball effect not necessarily in-
directly
anti-Semitism
port. he becomes a "parasite'' yoking
People see neighbors vacate their
subject to penalties.
Premyslov, who is a construction homes and wonder why Jews can
engineer and Moscow's mayor emigrate but not non-Jews. Jews
since 1963, told newsmen at the aiming for higher jobs are dis-
press center set up for the sum- couraged by employers who fear
mit conference, that Moscow had they may wish to -emigrate and
only 250,000 Jews. Many of those thereby cause a personnel prob-
-
ho want to leave can do so but lem, JTA was told.
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