American Bride of Seized Jewish Activist Begs Nixon to Help Them

CINCINNATI (JTA) — Judy Sil-
ver Shapiro appealed directly to
President Nixon Wednesday to
"Help get my husband out of the
Soviet Union."

Soviet military attache in London.
"Like many other friends of the
Soviet Union who served in the
Second World War alongside the
Red Army in the 'battle against
Nazism, we have been appalled
to learn that your army is being
used against the Jewish people,"
they wrote.

creation of the new committee was
announced by the head of the
French delegation, Prof. Rene Cas-
sin.
Cassin said that delegates have
written to Soviet President Nikolai
Podgorny and have also appealed
to French Foreign Minister Mau-
rice Schumann, asking him to take
up this "crucial and urgent is-
sue" with Soviet Foreign Minister

The award was presented jointly
aged parents behind.
The sources reported long lines to Sen. Scott and to Israeli Am-
outside the visa offices in Czerno- bassador Itzhak Rabin, who also
wicz. Almost all applications are spoke.
dealt with promptly and visas are
issued without delay when tIl docu- I A man cannot speak but be
judged himself.
ments are in order.
—Ralph W. Emerson.
Scott Says Fight by Soviet Jews

The 21-year-old social worker,
who was married to Soviet Jew-
ish activist Gavriel Shapiro in a
Raises Hopes of Other Minorities
religious ceremony in Moscow last
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WASHINGTON (JTA) —Senate
A leading Soviet journalist
week, said in a telegram to the
Friday, June 16, 1972-15
Republican leader Hugh Scott said
President that her husband was ' has been fired from his job with
Andrei
Gromyko.
here that "the steadfast, head-on
the prestigious literary weekly
"being held at Militia Station 26
Gromyko arrived in Paris
demand by the Jews in the Soviet
Literaturnaya Gazeta — Literary
where Commandant Leonid Kana-
Tuesday for a three-day visit
Union for religious freedom and
Gazette — and expelled from
kochkin is in charge."
during which he is due to con-
the freedom to emigrate to Israel
the Communist Party for mak-
Shapiro was arrested at Moscow
fer
with
Schumann
and
French
may prove to be one of the most
ing application to emigrate to
Airport Monday when he came to
President Georges Pompidou.
significant events in modern his-
Israel, his friends reported.
see off his wife, who was forced
Cassin also announced that the
tory."
to leave Russia because her visa
Victor Perelman submitted ap-
committee plans to hold a world
"The oldest, most powerful,
expired.
plication papers to the Soviet au- conference in Brussels in Decem-
totalitarian government of the 20th
Int her message to President thorities last March, his friends
ber. He said "The end of repres-
Century
has been forced to give
Nixon, Mrs. Shapiro said, "The said, requesting permission for
sion and persecution in the Soviet
ground to a tiny minority and to
charges are still unknotkn. My hus- himself, his wife and their 9-year-
Union can help European detente."
the opinion mobilized in their be-
band is on a diet of bread and su- old daughter to emigrate.
Granting of Exit Visas Depends
half in this country and else-
gar and his parents have been un-
He is believed to be the first on Where Soviet Jews Live
where,"
the Pennsylvania senator
able to see him, his fate is un-
member from the top ranks of
LONDON (JTA) — Obtaining
AT
said at a dinner of the Eastern
known. As an American citizen I Soviet journalists to apply to emi-
an exit visa from Soviet author-
Seaboard region of the American
appeal to you to help my husband
grate to Israel.
ities to go to Israel is relatively
he
re-
Technion
Society
at
which
get out of the Soviet Union."
10-20 Year Lid Clamped
easy for some Jews in the USSR ceived the society's Albert Ein-
Mrs. Shapiro arrived in New on Moscow Summit Record
while others experience lengthy
stein Award.
York Tuesday. According to
WASHINGTON (JTA) — What delays and harrassment, Jewish
The society announced that a
frierds, she planned to ask Presi-
President Nixon said on the Soviet sourses in the Soviet Union re- dormitory at the Technion in Haifa
dent Nixon for an appointment and
Jewish issue at the Moscow sum- ported.
is being named in honor of Sen-.
also intends to visit the Soviet Em-
The nature of the experience and Mrs. Scott.
mit conference and the response
bassy in Washington,
seems to depend on where the
he received will not be made pub-
HARVARD ROW
Sen. Robert Taft (R., Ohio)
lic for at least 10 years and pos- Jewish applicants live and the
plans to bring up the matter on
11 MILE & LAHSER
sibly as long as 20 years, the
nature of their employment, the
the Senate floor within a day or
White House made plain Tuesday.
sourses said.
two, an aide told the Jewish
Of the 130,000 Jews in the Byelo-
A Presidential spokesman re-
Telegraphic Agency Wednesday.
fused even to say specifically Russian Soviet Republic, an esti-
An aide to Sen. Taft told the JTA
mated
10 per cent want to go to
whether the Jewish question is
OPEN SUNDAYS 11-3
Israel but there may be many
that his office had asked the State part of the formal minutes of the
•
Department Saturday night to take summit conference. He stood pat more too frightened to apply for
some action whereby Soviet au- on the statements by Dr. Henry vasas, the sources said.
The stigma attached to a visa
thorities would extend Mrs. Shapi- Kissinger, President Nixon's as-
application in Minsk and other
ro's visa. But nothing could be sistant on national security affairs,
Byelo-Russian
cities is much great-
done in that direction, presumably
who participated in the summit
in view of the time problem and conference sessions as an adviser er than in Moscow or Leningrad,
the Soviet Union's largest metro-
the nature of the visa extension,
to the President.
the aide indicated.
polises.
After the summit talks ended
Anti-Semitic incidents have been
Meanwhile, circles working on
and the Presidential party arriv-
reported in Minsk recently, one in
behalf of Soviet Jews seemed to
ed in Kiev, Dr. Kissinger said
take a dim view of Miss Silver's
a factory.
in response to newsmen's ques-
marriage to Shapiro as it affected
tions that the President had
his chances for freedom and even-
Controversial Soviet poet 1osif
"mentioned the problem."
tual permission to emigrate to Is-
Brodsky has been offered a posi-
But when he was asked if the
rael. These circles claimed that
tion as poet in residence at the
University of Michigan. Brodsky
the marriage exposed Shapiro to President had brought it up with
Soviet Communist Party Secretary
recently slipped out of the Soviet
the point where he was arrested
General
Leonid
Brezhnev,
Kissing-
and now faces serious charges of
Union. He served' 18 months on
er
replied,
"I
don't
want
to
go
into
desertion, whereas prior to his
a Soviet work farm in the early
anything further on that question.
marriage, Soviet authorities had
1960s,
The Soviet leaders are aware of
not bothered to seize him.
One source remarked that "No- our position on the problem."
On the other hand, visas are
The minutes of the summit con- 1
body like Shapiro could hide for
obtainable without much difficulty
ference are classified "Top Secret
more than a day from the Soviet
in the Crimean city of Odessa, in
•
for at least 10 years" by both the
police but they left him alone
Czernowicz and Kilhinev, the
U.S. and the Soviet governments,
until this (his marriage) came
sources reported. In Odessa. 40 •
the White House informed the JTA.
families received visas in a single
up. -
"After that they will stay classi- '
day, and in Czernowicz as many
The couple was married at
fied under Sect. 5B-1 of the Execu-
as 30 visas are issued on certain
Shapiro's home. The ceremony
tive Order on declassification
days.
was performed by Rabbi Harry
the spokesman said.
Fifty Jewish families received
Kranz of Silver Spring, Md.
lie added that the classification
exit visas during a single week in
under a bridal canopy which
could be dropped down to "Secret"
Kishinev although a number of in-
Miss Silver brought with her
or "Confidential" after the 10th
dividual Jews there have experi-
to Russia. The bride has been
year. "It will probably come out
enced
harrassment.
active in behalf of Russian Jews.
all at once after 20 years in the
Exit visas are denied mainly to
Shapiro was one of 14 Jewish State Department's Foreign Policy
discharged Red Army men and
activists who went into hiding last Series unless the President decides
TE1.1-:Gli 1 11'1i just SOIL 'I'll or 12 MIL.I. RD.
Emmth after receiving orders to otherwise after 10 years,"-the JTA Jews engaged in security work. A
:153-13N1
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number of young people have gone
report for military duty. All were
was informed.
to
Israel
from
Odessa,
leaving
their
Army
Reserve
°
officers in the Red
Meanwhile, the British govern-
and had previously completed their
ment rejected a proposal that it
required military service. Their
lodge a formal protest with the
call-up was believed intended to
Soviet Union over the arrest of
keep them out of circulation dur- Jewish activists on the eve of
ing President Nixon's summit trip. President Nixon's visit to Moscow
to Moscow. last month.
Shapiro came out of hiding for ,
Joseph Godber, minister of state
his wedding. It is feared that he' in the foreign office, told Labor
will he either inducted or jailed.
NIP Greville .farmer that the go-
i=bapiro and his bride visited the vernment had no standing to make
and ties to
Snviet Palace of Marriages twice a formal representation to the
elty stems for Dad
last week but were refused a civil
Soviet government about the treat
terernony that would legalize their
ment of Soviet citizens.
marriage under Soviet law. On the
Committee for Rights of Soviet
HURRY TO
'first occasion, they were told, "We
Political Prisoners Set Up
w ill put all obstacles in your path." ;
PRINCETON
Internation-
An
—
PARIS
(JTA
On their second visit, they were
FOR THEIR
• , al Committee for the Rights of
told to return Aug. 30.
Two British Army officers who Man in the Soviet Union was set
up here Wednesday after a two-
fought in World War II have
day conference attended by dele-
the
protested sharply against
call-up of Soviet Jewish activists gates from a dozen countries, in-
eluding the United States.
20072 W. 7 Mile Rd.
into the Red Army.
The committee aims at protect-
at Evergreen
Brig, Gen. II. L. Glyn Hughes,
ing
the
rights
of
all
political
pri-
former chief medical officer of the
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British Army on the Rhine and soners and ensuring "minimal i
Maj. William Maxwell expressed rights of man" for all the inhabi-
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