Ransom Fees Only 1st Stage of 'Horrible Trap': Golda

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pre-
mier GoIda. Meir charged
that the exorbitant visa fees
demanded by Soviet author-
ities from educated Jews
seeking to emigrate represent
only "the first stage of a
horrible trap the Russians
are preparing for Jews
there."
According to Mrs. Meir,
"The ransom money plan is
not only aimed at Jewish
academicians but is part of
a plan aimed at all Russian
.Jews. If the ransom plan suc-
ceeds, no one can say or
even imagine what horrible
things the Russians plan for
the future," she said.

The premier spoke at a
special meeting of the nista-
drut Council on Russian Jews
and Jews in Arab lands. The
council unanimously adopted
a resolution calling on the
International Labor Organi-
zation to safeguard the rights
of Jewish scientists and work-
ers in Russia.

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Solidarity Day included some unique advice on "What
to do until freedom arrives" for the Soviet Jews.
Says the Greater New York Conference on Soviet
Jewry:
"If you send letters to the prisoners, do it by
registered air mail. Request an international return
receipt, which is to be sent to you via air mail, or
the return of the letter if it is undeliverable. You
will probably have to declare a value for the letter
and, it has been suggested this should be fixed at $8.
This would bring the total cost to about $1.50 for a
1/2-ounce letter. Should you have the letter returned,
please forward it to our office for possible legal ac-
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to you within a month, file a claim for its value, to
be paid by the Soviet government."

Two U.S. Jewish leaders
and political circles in Israel
described as unfounded re-
ports that easing and even-
tual elimination of the ran-
som were imminent.

Rabbi Marc H. Tanen-
baum, director of interrelig-
ious affairs for the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, said
that talks with officials in
the Nixon administration and
the State Department had
convinced him there was no
reason to believe the reports.
Jerry Goodman, executive
director of the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, said
reports of progress on the
exit fees are "exaggerated
and distorted."

These views were confirm•
ed by Israeli political circles
in Jerusalem. But they ex-
pressed hope that under
mounting international pres-
sure, the USSR 'would find a
way to reduce the fees with-
out losing face.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Jew-
ish Congress, said in Zurich
that there might be "a rea-
sonable hope" that the So-
viet government will change
its position on the visa tax.
lie said the hope stemmed
from "the opposition to the
tax by the American and
other governments and their
willingness to exercise their
influence in this respect."
Dr. Goldmann, delivered the
keynote address at a closed
session of the WJC's Euro-
pean Executive .
Jarnb Stein, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations, was quoted
over the weekend as claim-
ing that according to ^sour-
ces that I believe to be
thoritive," there was "hope-
ful movement on the ques-
tion of Soviet ransom tax."
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that
"we can only judge by what
actually happens." He urged
the Jewish community to
continue mobilizing "increas-
ed and widespread support"
for denial of most favored
nation status for the USSR
while the head tax remains.
(Denial of favored-nation
status to countries refusing
exit permits to those who
wish to leave is expressed in
the Jackson Amendment, cur-
rently before the Senate.
Both Michigan senators, Phil-
ip A. Hart and Robert Grif-
fin, have signed the amend-
ment, which probably will be
brought up for a vote in
January, when Congress re-
convenes.)
The Soviet "ransom" law
will be published shortly as
a universal law of the land,
legal sources said Saturday.
The decree was enacted by

the Supreme Soviet and

signed into law Aug. 23 by
President Nikolai Podgorny
and Mikhail Georgadze, sec-
retary of the Presidum of
the Supreme Soviet.

Although the full session
of the Supreme Soviet, which
met earlier thit month, did
not ratify the decree, it be-
came the law of the land as
soon as Podgorny signed it
and Premier Alexei N. Ko-
sygin issued an administra-
tive order establishing
a
schedule of fees.
In Jerusalem a Jewish
Agency official reported that
the Soviet visa head tax has
altered the character of im-
migration from that country
but has not affected its vol-
ume...

Jewish Agency Treasurer
Leon Doltzin told members
of the United Jewish Appeal
Study Mission in Tel Aviv
that the Soviet visa fees af-
fected no more than 20 per
cent of the potential emi-
grants. "We expect some 50,-
000 Russian Jews to come to
Israel," he said.

Yehuda- Dominitz, deputy
director of the agency immi-
gration department said that
-a total of 41,000 immigrants
arrived in Israel between
January and September. He
said that if anything, the visa
fees spurred the departure of
Jews from the USSR. People

not subjected to the fees for
holders of academic degrees
are advancing their depart-
ures for fear that if they
delay, the fees might be ex-
tended to them, the official
said.

Arkady Voloshin and Lazar
Trakhtenberg,
Abramovich
arriving in Tel Aviv after
serving prison terms decreed
in Kishinev, confirmed that
Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov,
the 28-year-old engineer serv-
ing a 10-year term ending
in June 1980, was transfer-
red from Potma prison two
weeks ago to solitary con-
finement for six months for
aiding another Jewish woman
prisoner.

The Supreme Court of the
Soviet Russian Republic has
upheld the sentence of Vladi-
mir Markman, who was giv-
en a three-year prison term
last August for allegedly
slandering the Soviet system,
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