11M THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 2, 1972-11 Soviet Authorities Clamp Down on Activists During Nixon Visit (Continued from Page lot 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. • • 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. 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