Markman Gets Three-Year Sentence at Hard Labor

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headquarters, "is reminiscent of
the period two years ago, when
the world was aroused by the in-
famous Leningrad trials.
"The plight of Soviet Jewry can-
not be buried under the efforts to
expand trade and cultural contact.
Soviet officials have repeatedly
stated that Jews who wish to emi-
grate may do so. The world is
waiting to see that this promise
is carried out."
The British Board of Jewish
Deputies cabled Mrs. Vladimir
Markman expressing the board's
shock at the sentence meted out
to her husband and assured her
of its continued efforts on behalf
of Soviet Jewry. The board also
sent a message of strong protest
to the Soviet ambassador in Lon-
don
Brooklyn District Attorney
Eugene Gold said he had sent
appeals to Soviet authorities
asking them to "undo the in-
justice of the three-year sen-
tence."
Gold sent his request in cables
to Soviet Premier Kosygin. Chief
Procurator Roman Rudenko and
Anatoly Dobrynin. the Soviet am-
bassador to the United States.
Soviet Health Chief Rejects
Requests to Allow U.S. Medical
Men to Visit Jewish Prisoners
WASHINGTON IJTA) — Sovie•
Ilealth Minister Boris Petrovsky
declined to give firm assurance
that American medical men visit-
ing the Soviet Union as members
of professional or government del-
egations could enter any Soviet
medical facility or meet with
particular patients
A number of Soviet Jewish dis-
sidents are in such facilities and

prisons with a variety of illnesses,
ton committee, himself a recent
request, made to the group's di- evicted by the police from the Fin-
rector, Pavel Virsky, by three nish Embassy after they invaded
some incurred after conviction and
emigre from the Soviet Union,
American artists, to meet and dis- the embassy offices demanding a
asked Dr. Petrovsky questions
imprisonment in recent trials.
cuss the situation of Russian Jew- halt to all Russian trials against
in English and in Russian.
Dr. Petrovsky, concluding a 10-
major
health
facilities
day visit to
He charged that Sylva Zalman- ish dancer Valery Panov, the Na- Jews.
in the United States as head of a son, imprisoned on a 15-year sen- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry
Police had to drag out the ac-
Soviet delegation to which the tence, had a "very sick heart" reported.
tivists after all attempts by em-
U. S. government was host, side- and that Raiza Palatnik "lost her
The three artists, David Bar- bassy officials to persuade them
stepped questions proposing such baby" in a prison camp.
Ilan, concert pianist, Alvin Ailey, to leave quietly failed, and in the
assurances from the Jewish Tele-
Yadin said that both Jewish choregrapher, and Theodore Bikel, process police detained 10 of the
graphic Agency during a news women were in the Potma camp entertainer, wrote Virsky: "As members for resisting eviction.
conference at the Department of and that he had received informa- colleagues and fellow artists, we
The Finnish Embassy has rep-
Health, Education and Welfare tion about their poor physical con- would appreciate an opportunity resented the interests of the So-
attended by about 50 newsmen
dition last week via telephone to meet while you are in New York viet Union since relations between
and electronic media technicians. from the Soviet Union.
City. From the artistic and human- Israel and Russia were ruptured
Questions . directly concerning
Yadin also asked the health itarian viewpoint we are anxious during the Six-Day War.
Soviet Jewish prisoners had pre-
minister for information on Lev to discuss, in private, the special
The JDL militants said they
viously been put to the health
Yagman and Victor Buglovsky who, case of Valery Panov.•'
staged the invasion in respone to
minister by representatives of
he said, also are in the Potma
news of a renewed wave of trials
a
leading
Panov,
who
was
the Alpha Omega Dental Frater-
prison .
against Jews in Russia, especially
dancer with Leningrad's Kirov
nity and the Washington Com-
Elliott Richardson, the HEW
that of Vladimir Markman.
Ballet Company, was dismissed
mittee for Soviet Jewry.
secretary, tried twice to keep the
from the company last April be-
In another JDL development,
Dr. Norman Buckman, of Silver Soviet Jewish issue out of the
cause
he
applied
for
a
visa
to
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of
Spring, Md., asked Dr. Petrov- press conference. But Petrovsky
emigrate
to
Israel.
The
NCSJ
sky why two Soviet Jewish den- responded to Yadin's questions.
the JDL, now residing in Israel,
reported that Panov has become
announced the establishment of
tists — whom Dr. Buckman iden-
In opening remarks, Richard-
deteriorating
a "desperate and
a Jewish Identity Center in Jeru-
tified as Michael Kornblit of Len- son announced he was accepting
man."
ingrad and Boris Azernikov of Ka- Dr. Petrovsky's invitation to visit
salem, a school which he said
was designed for foreign youth
linin—did not receive "adequate the Soviet Union. Dr. Petrovsky
Bar-Ilan said: "This is a very
medical care "• at Potma prison. responded by saying he welcomed sad commentary on the cultural
instructors to teach JDL prin.
Dr. Buckman said the two dentists cooperation between the U.S. and exchange program . . . The cul-
ciples to other youths upon re-
had been imprisoned because they Russia on medical research, men- tural exchange was initiated to
turning to their country.
wanted to emigrate to Israel.
tioning particularly cancer and crack the wall between the two
Rabbi Kahane also told a news
"You are a cardiac specialist," heart disease.
countries (the U.S. and the Soviet conference that some 22 young
Dr, Buckman told the health mini-
Plainly irritated when Yadin Union). Obviously on the Soviet people from the United States and
ster. ''We are informed that car- began asking his questions, Rich- side, the wall remains uncracked." Canada between the ages of 17 and
diac patients have to do heavy ardson said it was "not fair to Police Evict JDL Members
22 would take part in the first
labor in prison. How do you ac- the minister to ask him to com- From Finnish Embassy in Israel
course, to be held in Jerusalem.
count for patients having to do mend on specific individuals" and
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Some 30
Kahane also said the JDL plans
this?"
that "it is not serving a useful members of the militant Jewish to start a course for Israeli youth
Indicating he was not aware
purpose to pursue individual Defense League were forcibly shortly.
of the cases Dr. Buckman mention- cases."
ed, the health minister said that Ukrainian Troupe Head Ignores
18 — Friday, August la, 1972
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"under any condition and
any Appeal for Meeting on Dancer.
circumstance any Soviet citizen
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
is rendered full medical assist- Ukrainian Dance Company has
ance "
completed its New York tour and
or
Milton Yadin of the Washing-
departed without replying to a

HAVING A WEDDING

Rockefeller Back in NY. 'Clarifies
Report of IT.S.-Soviet Pact 4111 Jews

JERUSALEM (JTA) — News- said he had been "misquoted" in
men who attended the press con- - Jerusalem.)
ference here Sunday night at
The Jerusalem Post, which had
which Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of a reporter at the governor's press
New York reportedly said an conference, did not refer to the
agreement was reached at the purported figure agreement in its
May Moscow summit for Soviet coverage.
permission to allow 35.000 Jews
The Post reporter said later he
to emigrate annually were in sharp ,did not hear the governor allude
disagreement this week as to to any U.S.-Soviet accord on the
whether the governor had made release of Soviet Jews.
that statement.
Two other foreign newsmen at
According to one version, the the conference were questioned
governor told some newsmen that on whether Rockefeller made the
President Nixon and Premier Ko- statement.
sygin had agree d, at the May
One said the governor spoke
meeting, on the desirability of al-
about President Nixon and Pre-
lowing Soviet Jews to emigrate to
mier Kosygin agreeing that So-
Israel
viet Jews should be allowed to
Howev e r, a flurry of reports
leave Russia, but he said flatly
emerged that the governor had
he had heard nothing from the
said that President Nixon had
governor about a precise figure
reached an agreement with
agreement.
either Kosygin or Communist
The National Conference on So-
Party chief Leonid Brezhnev on
viet Jewry said that the statement
33.000 Jews being allowed to
by Gov. Rockefeller in Jerusalem
leave annually.
"which he subsequently clarified,"
Both Haaretz and Maariv gave confirms the belief that President
prominent treatment to the pur- Nixon did speak with Communist
ported agreement, which also was Party head Leonid Brezhnev on
distributed by the international the subject of Soviet Jewry at
news services, including the As- their Moscow meeting last May.
sociated Press. The Al' story ap-
Richard Maass, NCSJ chairman.
peared i n t h e also said that "no information has
N e w York been made available as to the
Times
scope or depth of those conversa-
T h e governor tions" in Moscow.
backed off from
He cited State Department fig-
h i s purported ures that the number of Soviet
specific figure, Jews migrating to Israel and else-
on the number ' where during the six months pri-
of Soviet Jews or to the Nixon Moscow visit in-
scheduled for dicated an upward trend "to about
immigration an- 3,000 per month.
"Naturally," he said, "we hope
nually when he
Rockefeller
spoke at a press
that the conversations between
President Nixon and Brezhnev
conference, at La-Guardia airport
will lead to an expansion of
on his return from Israel.
lie described the agreement at , emigration for Soviet Jews. as
well as a more humane policy
the Moscow Sum mit that Soviet
toward those Jews who apply
Jews should he allowed to leave
to emigrate."
as "more of meeting of minds
I fe said that
r,. e President
than a signed agreement " He

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Nixon's visit, .three Jewish acti-
vists "have been imprisoned for
terms up to three years and at
least four are awaiting trial.
"Soviet policy toward Jewish
activists who wish to emigrate to
live as Jews is no less harsh than
in previous months. The well-
publicized harassment and debase-
: ment of the internationally-known
scientist, Benjamin Levich, is an-
. other example of the Soviet policy
to punish Soviet Jews who make
known their desire to leave the
Soviet Union through enforced un-
, employment and a wide range of
, hostile social and economic pres-
sures. This has not changed," he
added.
"Although a welcome first step,
the present number of Jews who
do leave represents only a small
, fraction of those wishing to leave
—both those actually applying and
those who are waiting to see what
befalls other activists.
"In any event," he added, "it
would be regrettable, if, in fact,
any agreement was made by any-
one that limited the number of
Jews who wish to leave to a fixed
quota, since it would literally
doom three-quarters of those now
applying."

Rockefeller brought a letter
of friendship and good will from
President Nixon to Premier
Golda Meir. The letter was de-
livered to the prime minister
when Rockefeller met with her
in Jerusalem after a tour of
Sinai as guest of the Israeli
Army.
Rockefeller was due in Israel
during the recent Zionist Organ-
ization of America convention but
had to postpone the visit because
of a family mourning. He was ac-
companied by New York State
Attorney General Louis J. Lefico-
w itz and Samuel Hausman. hon-
orary chairman of the Greater
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