14 Nobel Laureates Assail Soviet 'Violation of Human Rights'
NEW YORK (JTA)—Four- of the International Institute
Earlier, some 200 Ameri-
Human
Rights, with can Jews staged a counter-
teen Nobel Laureates have for
denounced the Soviet decree headquarters in Strasbourg. dance festival at the City
U. S. State Department of- Center opening of the Ber-
imposing a bead tax on edu-
cated Jewish citizens who ficials have confirmed that yozka Dance Company of the
seek the right to leave the the Supreme Soviet ratified Soviet Union to "remind"
USS R. according to the Aca- the stiff visa fees imposed company members and pa-
demie Committee on Soviet on Jewish intellectuals and trons entering the theater
academicians seeking to that "other Russian artists
Jewry.
The committee, which leave the Soviet Union.
and intellectuals are being
The ratification occurred oppressed and harrassed" be-
claims a membership of
6,000 academicians repre- during a two-day session of cause they are Jews desiring
senting 200 campuses in this the Soviet parliament last to emigrate to Israel.
country, reported that the week, according to a report
In Montreal, Mitchell Sharp,
Nobel Laureates siened a from Tel Aviv based on Canadian secretary of state
statement which condemned Radio Moscow's Hebrew for external affairs,
has
"the massive violation of transmittal to Israel.
given assurance that he will
(American Jewish Commit- raise
human rights" implict in
with Soviet diplomats
the head tax policy "and its tee official Rabbi Marc at the General Assembly the
burdensome consequences for Tanenbaum, who met with issue of the high exit fees.
the scores of thousands of State Department officials,
In a letter to Sol Kanee,
people who have openly ex- indicated that they had been
president of the Canadian
pressed their desire to leave informed of the ratification
action by Soviet authorities. Jewish Congress, Sharp said
the USSR."
he planned to meet with the
The statement urged the The AJCommittee official
Soviet officials, including
Soviet authorities to rescind was informed that Soviet
possibly
Soviet Foreign Min-
affirmed
the bead tax and to "accept authorities have
ister Andrei Gromyko, with
fully and without hindrance that emigration will be per-
whom he intends to discuss
everyone's right to leave his mitted to continue largely
unchanged as far as aver- the matter.
coontrv."
The statement warn–d that age-skill Russian Jews are Gavriel Shapiro Released
After Three Days in Jail
the bead tax decree can concerned.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Jew-
Twenty-three New York
"ewly have a derrvecsing ef-
fect OM the p•ssiblitv of ex- area congressmen responded ish activist Gavriel Shapiro
pansies and enhancement of to the call for a "Special was released from a prison
academie, canal-al and sci- Order of Congress" made by 60 miles outside Moscow last
entific exchanges between 11 of their colleagues, Stan- Friday after three days of
the people •4 the United ley Lowell, chairman of the detention for undisclosed
States and the Soviet Union." Greater New York Confer- reasons, it was reported here.
The 14 Nobel Laureates in- ence on Soviet Jewry, re-
Shapiro, sentenced last July
cluded hider ,Rabi, Colum- ported-
to one year of "corrective
The bipartisan response put labor" for alleged draft eva-
bia University, 1944, for phy-
sics; Poiykarp Kusch, visit- the Soviet Union on notice sion, was arrested by militia-
ing professor, University of that their restrictive policy men on Sept. 19, the day he
Texas, 1955, for physics; on Soviet Jews will affect was to have started serving
George Wald, Harvard Uni- congressional debates on his sentence.
versity, 1967, for medicine; pending USSR-U.S. trade re-
"Corrective labor" permits
Julius Axelrod, National In- lations.
the defendant to live at home
Lowell noted that "the
stitute of Mental Health.
but requires him to work at
1970, for medicine; and Paul critical nature of the situa- a job designated by the au-
A. Samuelson, Massachusetts tion now facing the Soviet thorities. Shapiro was at his
Institute of Technology, 1970, Jewish community is clearly Parents' Moscow home when
seen with grave concern on
for economics.
he was arrested. The militia
Rene Cassin, winner of the the part of New York area gave no reason for his arrest
congressmen.
Nobel Peace Prize and chair-
or for his release.
Among the congressmen
man of the international col-
The Student Struggle for
loquium of legal and other who participated in the Soviet Jewry said that 11
experts on the Right to meeting was Rep. William F. Jews arrested at Babi Yar
Leave and the Right to Re- Ryan (D.N.Y.), who died of while conducting Rosh Ha-
turn, recently held at Upp- throat cancer Sept. 17 at age
shana services Sept_ 7 have
sala
University, Sweden, 50.
been released.
Lowell, in a tribute to the
joined in condemning the So-
An SSSJ spokesman also
Democratic Reform move-
viet decree.
reported that five Kiev Jews,
Prof. Cassin is president ment leader, stated: "Con-
including
a leading activist,
gressman Ryan was a good
friend to the Jewish commu- Mark Yampolsky, have been
nity and, in particular , to given permission to emigrate
Terrorist Cell Was
the cause of Soviet Jewry. conditional on payment of
Mordechai Chen,
Rabbi
The World Jewish Con-
chairman, said that many of gress leader said he agreed
the members were arrested with Jewish and Israeli lead-
in the midst of their studies ers generally that a world-
and are now finding it diffi- wide struggle should be con-
cult to finance their chil- ducted against such ran-
dren's high school and uni- som charges.
high visa fees for the educa-
tion they received from the
state.
Meanwhile, the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported that Yankel 'Chant-
sis of Kishinev, a Jewish
activist, was going on trial
in Kirov on charges of slan-
dering the Soviet state.
versity education in Israel.
But, he said, if after an-
He charged that Kupat other six months the USSR
Bohm, the national sick fund, remained adamant, "there
has refused treatment to
Soviet Jews Charged
former prisoners who con-
for Upkeep in Prisons
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A tracted chronic illnesses in
Soviet
jails.
recent Soviet Jewish arrival,
The only positive step
Haim Maratchnik, has told
of having been compelled to taken so far was Histadrut's
Pay $12,000 to Soviet authori- decision to apply five years'
ties for "costs" incurred by imprisonment served by
the government while he was some of the emigres toward
incarcerated in a Soviet their seniority in wage calcu-
lation, Rabbi Chen said.
prison.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann as-
The emigre explained that
serted last Friday that he
the Soviets justified their
had been misquoted on his
charge on the ground that
statement last month propos-
having been excused from
ing that arrangements be
physical labor due to poor
made to ransom university-
health during the 15 years of
educated Soviet Jews unable
his imprisonment, he was
to pay the high exit fees
therefore liable for "room
and board."
Jewish immigrants who
served time in Soviet jails
for alleged Zionist activities
demanded that the Israel
government and the Jewish
Agency extend them official
recognition for the time they
spent in prison.
Leaders of the Prisoners
of Zion Association charged
at a press conference that
the finance ministry, so far,
has blocked recognition of
their imprisonment as "serv-
ice as soldiers on the second
front." They said they would
appeal to the World Zionist
Executive for support.
The association presently
numbers about 350 members
and has „another 150 appli-
cants.
will be no other way but to
recruit the money and save
as many intellectuals as pos-
sible from Russia."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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TEL
AVIV (JTA) — A speak out on behalf of Soviet
Bedouin mother and her five Jewry. and even with pain
Ryan
children were remanded to and discomfort, Mr.
Acre prison for 15 days Tues- never (sited to respond to
day while police gathered the plight of Soviet Jewry "
evidence indicating that the
At the United Nations,
family constituted a terrorist' Yosef Tekoah, Israel's am-
cell bent on sabotage against bassador to the UN, met
the civilian population.
with Secretary General Kurt
The family, whose names Waldheim and transmitted to
were not disclosed, belongs him an appeal signed by
to the Arab el Aramsheh more than 500 Soviet Jews
Bedouins, a tribe that tents calling for United Nations
near the Lebanese border.
action against the ransom
Police said they discovered tax.
a large quantity of denoa•
The appeal was addressed
tors, explosives, arms and to Waldheim and to heads of
activating devices as well as delegations to the 27th ses-
a large sum of foreign and sion of the General Assem-
Israeli currency in the fam- bly. It was signed by Jews
ily's living quarters.
from various parts of the
They said the cell was Soviet Union.
headed by two brothers, aid-
While several
thousand
ed by two sisters and a demonstrators massed out-
younger brother who appar- side the United Nations head-
ently operated with the quarters Tuesday to denounce
knowledge and aproval of the fees imposed on Soviet
their 50-year-old mother. Jews, 29 Jewish and Chris-
There was no mention of a tian clergymen and academi-
father
cians gathered at the C. S.
A police spokesman said Missioh headquarters across
the cell was organized to the street. They chaired
carry out acts of sabotage in themselves to the out'
the northern district of Is- railing to symbolize 1.1-
rael and was supplied with pressive nature of the Soviet
cash and other support by "ransom." That demonstra-
terrorist agents from across tion was not related to the
one on the UN Plaza.
the border.
4,000 Protest Jailing
of Yeshiva Students
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An
estimated 4,000 Orthodox
Jews shouted and pounded
their fists against passing
buses in the central square
outside the Mea Shearim
quarter Tuesday afternoon to
protest the jailing of two
yeshiva students convicted of
fire-bombing the "Eros"
shop in Tel Aviv.
Police were on hand in
large numbers to enforce a
ban against a protest parade
through the city which an
Orthodox group, calling itself
the "Committee for the
Preservation of Israel's Sac-
red Heritage," had applied
for Sunday.
The objects of the protest
were Shmuel Wiesenstern
and Israel Brand, bota 19,
who were arrested last July
and subsequently convicted
of throwing a fire-bomb into
the "Eros" shop. The pair
comes up for sentencing
Suday.
Police made no effort to
disperse the crowd but pre-
vented it from spilling into
the streets leading from the
square. No arrests were re-
ported.
ice.
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