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Goldmann Assailed for Proposing That World Jewry, Israel Raise Rarsom

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president
of the World Jewish Con-
gress, became the center of
a bitter new controversy this
week over his proposal that
world Jewry and the Israel
government raise the money
to pay the excessive visa fees
demanded by Soviet authori-
ties from educated Jews
wishing to leave the Soviet
Union.
Dr. Goldmann made the
proposal in a statement on
the Kol Israel radio "news-
reel." It was promptly de-
nounced by spokesmen for
the Jewish Agency and the
WJC's Israeli Executive who
said they dissociated them-
selves completely from any
suggestion that Russian Jews
should be ransomed. Jewish
Agency Treasurer Leon Dul-
tzin said he was "utterly
schocked." Dultzin declared,
"We will not agree that Rus-
sian Jews be reduced to the
status of cattle with a price
on their heads."

Goldmann deplored the So-
viet demand that Jews re-
imburse the state for the
higher education they re.
ceived as a condition for al-
lowing them to leave. How-
ever, he said, "It may be
unavoidable that apart from
a public campaign we will
have to finance the payments
asked by the Russians." He
said "the payments should
be made through both Jew-
ish and international foreign
loans."
Many countries should be
mobilized to influence the
Russians, the WJC leader
said. ''but in the end we will
have to get the money to-
gether and we have the mor-
al right to demand an inter-
national loan." Dr. Gold-
mann said he could not un-
derstand why Israel is not
giving this serious consider-
ation.
(A report from London
quoted Jewish sources in the

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Soviet Union as saying that
the new visa fees decreed by
the Soviet Council of Minis-
ters Aug. 3 will come up for
ratification by the Supreme
Soviet on Sept. 19).
Although Foreign Minister
Abba Eban did not mention
Dr. Goldmann by name he
lashed out against the "coun-
sels of despair" who propose
that Jews raise the money
to "ransom" Soviet Jews.
Addressing
some 3,000
school children assembled at
the Western Wall plaza, the
Foreign Minister said: "We
will not rest nor be silent
until the (ransom) decree is
revoked." Eban told the cab-
inet that he regretted the
Goldmann statement.
Soviets Cancel Invitation
to Mitterand; Cites Stand
on Ransom, Czechoslovakia
PARIS (JTA) — The Soviet
Union has cancelled French
Socialist leader's Francois
Mitterand invitation to visit
the USSR because of the
stand he had taken on behalf
of Soviet Jewry.
The Soviet ambassador,
Piotr Abrassimov, in a letter
to the first secretary of the
French Socialist Party,
stated that after the anti-
Soviet stand taken by Mit-
' terand "his visit to the Soviet
i Union can serve no useful
-"
Mitterand was due to visit
Moscow next month as the
head of the newly established
Socialist-Communist electoral
bloc. The cancellation of the
visit can thus have far reach-
, ing consequences on the
forthcoming legislative elec-
tions due to take place next
spring.
Abrassimov pointed to
"two fundamental anti-Soviet
stands" taken by Mitterand:
, his intervention on behalf of
'Soviet Jewry and his recent
appeal to the Soviet govern-
' ment to lift the ransom sys-
tem as applied to Jewish
emigrants. The other exam-
ple cited by the Soviet dip-
lomat was Mitterand's inter-
vention on behalf of the
Czech intellectuals now being
tried in Prague.
The Soviet ambassador's
letter claimed that the ran-
som system "is not an anti-
Jewish action but is applied
to an equal extent 1.0 all So-
viet citizens." Abrassimov
also claimed that the Soviet
Union "does not discriminate
in any form whatsoever
against its Jewish citizens."
Abrassimov's letter and the
cancellation of Mitterand's

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Science by seven British said he paid 3,100 rubles, the a construction engineer in
scientists. They drew atten- equivalent of $3,534, for a Moscow', and his daughter-
tion to Levich's plight since visa for his son Jacob, a in-law, a bibliographer. Lip-
he applied for an exit visa second year engineering stu- kin said his son has no
and to his poor health. They dent at the university. Gold- money.
said that 150 of the appeal's berg told reporters that the
signatories are Fellows of the Russians gave him no receipt
Unless each man produces
for the "ransom." "They more than he receives, in-
Royal Society.
take the money and hand creases his output, there will
Kunstler Seeking to Help
over the visa and that's be less for him and all the
Gavriel Shapiro Get Out
Wil- that," he said.
NEW YORK (JTA)
others. —Bernard M. Baruch
Liam M. Kunstler, the law-
According to Goldberg,
yer who defended the Chi- many Jewish academicians
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cago Seven and is identified are paying the exorbitant
Friday, Sept. 8, 1972-37
with left-wing causes, an- "diploma tax." He said a
nounced that he was seeking neighbor who is an engineer
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to travel to the Soviet Union paid $11,400 for his visa.
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to help Judy Shapiro in her
Frank Gordon, a journalist
effort to get her husband, who traveled on the plane
Gavriel, out of that country. with the immigrants from
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ence in his New York office, ilies in Riga have already 4 , ASTROLOGER
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Kunstler said, "I hope the paid thousands of rubles for
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influence I have in the Soviet their visas.
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in this case." He said he nowitz said that 30.50 Jewish . 356-8525 C.ili etattqwects •
plans to accompany Mrs. academicians and their fam- ******** • a a a , at •
Shapiro to Moscow late Oc- ilies there had received per
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tober to attend her civil mar-
mission to leave Russia, but
riage ceremony to Gavriel
their visas were withheld
and to help get him out.
pending payment of the fees.
Kunstler said he was
, Meanwhile, they have lost
taking up Mrs. Shapiro 's
their jobs and "they are
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cause because of its "humane penniless and sit on their
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appeal" and because he is ;
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valises with no hope of rais.
against travel restrictions.
w•nt,
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ing the huge sum of money
Mrs. Shapiro told newsmen demanded from them," she
that her husban d wou ld have said.
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to pay a $12,000 "ransom".
The desperation of some
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for a visa to leave the Soviet
1 e w s was illustrated by
Union.
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Chaim Lipkin. a 79-year-old
Mrs. Shapiro said the shoemaker who arri%ed here gPIAL STOMA
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$12.000 visa fee stemmed , from Leningrad earlier this
from the new Soviet decree month_
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that Jews wishing to emi-
He declared that tie was
grate reimburse the State
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for the free higher education prepared to go to London
to donate one of his kidneys
they received. Shapiro is an
engineer. Mrs. Shapiro said to raise the $13,167 demanded
by Soviet authorities for a
that each of her in-laws •
visa for his son Vladimir,
would have to pay the equiv- ,
alent of V0,000 in order to i
leave Russia. Both hold doc-
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torate degrees.
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Viktor Perelman. a Rus-
sian-Jewish journalist who
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was fired from the editorial
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staff of Moscow's Literatur-
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naya Gazeta after he applied
for a visa to emigrate to
Israel, was arrested in a
Moscow street but released
after a few - hours when he
refused to answer questions,
Jewish sources in the Soviet
Union reported.
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Perelman recently advi7d
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Jewish academicians not to,
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pay the excessive visa fees. '
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Sylva Zalmanson Kuznet-
sov, 2A-year-old engineer ser-
wing a 10-year strict-regime
sentence in the Soviet Union, I,
has been transferred from
labor camp to prison for six
months. Sources said the
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move. similar to that ordered
recently for Valeriy Kukui
was probably in "retaliation"
for overseas protest against
her incarceration.
M r s. Paulina Korenblit,
wife of imprisoned Russian
Jewish dentist Mikhail Kor
enblit, appealed on his behalf
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to Dr. Irving Rothstein, pres-
ident of the District of Co-
lumbia Dental Society.
Dr. Rothstein said he
would ask the society to ask
the American Dental Assoc,
iation to intercede with the
International Red Cross and
the United Nation-.
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forthcoming trip to Moscow
show for the first time the
seriousness with which Mos-
cow views this issue.
Jewish leaders attending
an international conference
on Soviet Jews in London
pledged to use moral per•
suasion and to work within
the limits of democratic and
civilized action to get the
Soviet government to revoke
its exorbitant visa charge on
Jewish academicians and in-
tellectuals seeking to leave
the Soviet Union.
They said that Jews every-
, where would be urged "not
to pay this tax on human
beings."
Meanwhile, it was reported
from Moscow that 47 Soviet
Jews from Moscow and
Kharkov have petitioned
President Nikolai Podgorny
to revoke the levy.
The Soviet Union has asked
Secretary-
United Nations
General Kurt Waldheim to
put a stop to UN secretariat
distribution of Israeli com-
plaints on treatment of Soviet
Jews.
Vikton Issraelyan, the No 2
Soviet delegate, complained
specifically about distribution
of ,Israeli material relating
to imposition of heavy exit
fees on Jews wanting to em-
igrate from Russia.
Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr.
(R. N.Y.) said he would in-
troduce a sense-of-Congress
resolution Thursday, t w o
days after the fall season
begins, asserting that the So-
viet Union and its leaders
should be "condemned for
creating a class of slaves in
the 20th Century" througSi
imposition of high fees on
educated immigrants.
Several thousand people
lined the streets of the gar-
ment center during lunch
hour Aug. 30 to protest the
exit fees.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R
N.Y) demanded "justice for
Soviet Jewry as a condition
for close economic relations
with the USSR in trade and
finance."
, Presidential
Democratic
nominee Sen. George McGov-
ern appealed "directly to
the people of America ...
to speak out loudly, force-
, fully, courageously" on be-
half of Soviet Jews.
Some 100 Jewish Peru-
vians, mostly young persons
, and leaders of the Jewish
community, staged a demon-
stration in Lima in front of
the Soviet Embassy.
12 Professors Urge USSR
to End Policy of
Excessive Visa Fees
HAVERFORD, Pa. (JTA)
— The Soviet Union has been
asked by the presidents of
12 universities and colleges
in Pennsylvania to abandon
its policy of excessive visa
fees for Jewish academicians
:seeking to emigrate to Israel.
A statement signed by the
12 was sent to Anatoly F.
Dohrynin, the Soviet ambas-
sador in Washington and to
Prof. M. Keldysm chairman
of th•• Academy of Science
in NI , L'iCOW by John Ft_ Cole-
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