Help Sought for Jackson, Vanik Amendments to Aid USSR Jewry

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to four months' solitary con- sent appeals and expressions I the British leader and the were drafted into the Red; on's visit last May
to
from paying the head tax out finement, but no reason for! of support on their behalf to' Soviet newcomers, said that Army during President Nix- Moscow-
of consideration for their 11- this was given.
Soviet officials.
of the 900 Soviet Jewish in-
nancial status.
According to the camp ad-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
The NCSJ said Panov had tellectuals coming to Israel 8—Friday, Jan. 5, 1973
Jewish activists in Moscow ministration, Kukui was re-
been told he could perform during the past three months,
said Friday that they did leased from solitary confine- in provincial towns but not in 600 have been forced to pay
not know of any cases in re- ment in November but
Leningrad, apparently with the education tax and the
cent weeks in which such neither his wife, Ella, who is
the Kirov Ballet Company other 300 did not. But a So-
systematic waivers or reduc- in Israel. nor his relatives from which he was expelled vier woman mathematician
and friends in the Soviet
tions were applied
when he applied for an exit told Wilson that the diploma
The sources noted further Union have had any corn' visa for Israel.
tax was not the fundamental
that most of the Jewish emi- munication from him in the '
'problem of Soviet Jews seek-
The
NCSJ
said
his
wife,
grants exempted from the I last eight months.
Galena Ragozinka, a bailer- ing exit. She said "our hard-
head tax had their visas
His relatives have not been •
est problem" is getting per-
•
•
.
granted just before the Amer- given permission to see him, who
was demoted and sub- mission to leave.
ican presidential elections
although a visit was due, ac- sequpntly resigned in protest,
0 n e of the newcomers,
and that "since then there cording to camp regulations. was told she could perform
Ruth Alexandrovitch, told
have been only a handful of
Meanwhile, 13 Soviet Jews in Leningrad but not while Wilson she did not think
scattered cases."
THE DIAMONDS INTERNATIONAL
were released Tuesday after she was under the "bad in- Sylva Zalmanson would sur-
Moves On to Reintroduce
AWARDS & FIRST PRIZE IN THE
serving 15-day sentences for fluence" of her husband.
vive the 10-year sentence she
Bills Barring Most-Favored
protesting the government's
AMERICAN DIAMO ND JEWELRY
United Nations Secretary is serving at the Potma labor
Nation Status for USSR
refusal to let them emigrate
CON1PETIXDN
General Kurt Waldheim was camp.
,
WASHINGTON ( J TA ) -- to Israel.
Viktor Yachut, the young
urged to investigate "through
American Savings Building
Senate and House backers of
The sources said 11 men an appropriate UN agency Jewish physicist from Mos-
24700 Northwestern Highway at 10 Mile
legislation linking freedom of and two women were freed the penal conditions and in- cow, arrived via Vienna with
and Evergreen Telephone: 356-7322
e m i g r a tion to U.S.-Soviet from a Moscow prison after stitutions of the USSR" in
a group of emigrants from
Your Bank Americard or Master Charge
trade are preparing to resub- receiving warnings against which 40 Jewish prisoners of Russia.
Welcome
mit their bills jointly. further disturbances. conscience are jailed.
Yachut was among a num-
Aides in the office of Sen.
The 13 were
The plea was contained in ber of Jewish activists who
Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash.) Jews from five Soviet cities a It
f
H
e erfrom
Harold
Ostroff
and Rep. Charles Vanik
D rounded up in Moscow last
and William Stern, president
Ohio) told the Jewish Tel e- month before national cele-
and executive secretary re-
graphic Agency that new su P- brations marking the 50th
spectively of the Workmen's
port for their legislation i s anniversary of the founding
Circle.
being sought from freshme n of the Soviet Union.
congressmen. Five of the 7 6
At least 22 have now been Ex-Prime Minister Wilson
senators w h o co-sponsore d released. The sources had no Pledges to Use Influence
to Help Soviet Jews
the Jackson Amendment hay
information on the other 42.
dropped out this session.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
However, it was believed he
Support among the 13 newly police had quietly freed most group of Soviet newcomers
elected senators is expected and sent them home.
issued a personal appeal to
to more than offset this loss.
In New York, the National visiting former Prime Min-
• The Jackson Amendment, Conference on Soviet Jewry ister Harold Wilson of Brit-
which would withhold most- reported it had learned that ain, asking him to bring
favored-nation status and Valery Panov, the ousted pressure on Soviet authorities
credit privileges from Com-
member of the Kirov Ballet, so that their friends and rel-
munist nations which Violate and Leonid Tarrasuk, former atives would be permitted to
The combination
hi
emigration rights, continues curator of the Heritage Mu- emigrate to Israel.
Dunlop
of the above promises This is JOE
to enjoy a firm foothold in
seum of Leningrad, had been
Wilson met with the Soviet
CW44
the Senate, where 51 consti- summoned by the KGB secret e migres during a 30-minute
you the most successful winter driving
Silent
tutes a majority.
police and warned they • visit to the Mevasseret Zion
Track
The corresponding Vanik would be prosecuted for "li- a bsorption center near Jeru-
you've ever had
The World's
Bill has so far failed to clear beling the state" if they did
ale m.
Finest
the minimum majority mark not stop making overseas
Wilson asked the Israel
of 218 in the House. Mark calls for assistance.
Snow Tire
Foreign Ministry officials to
Talisman, administrative as-
gather
"all the particulars"
Both have attracted partic-
sistant to Vanik, attributes
this lesser showing to a lack ular attention and Interest on the Soviet Jews so that he
SAFE & DEPENDABLE
from figures in the arts in could later try to use his in-
of publicity.
other countries, who have fluence with the Soviets.
"Dunlop Quality Costs No More"
"There is no heat in the
After the meeting, Wilson
House" for this legislation,
told the Jewish Telegraphic
he told the JTA. "Everyone
Agency that he was "con-
assumes that all the action
tinuing" to pursue the issue
is with the Jackson Amend-
DYNAMIC TIRE SALES
of Soviet Jewry with the
ment In the Senate."
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Russian officials all the time.
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Phony,: 549-7350
Last session, the Vanik Syrian MIG-21 was shot
Louis Pincus, chairman of
Mon.-Thurs. 9-6; Fri. 9-8; Sat. 9-3; Sun. 10-3
Bill was cosponsored by 134 down Tuesday in a dogfight
the Jewish Agency, who con-
Open Sunday during Nov. & Dec. 11-3
representatives when it was with Israeli jets over the
ducted the meeting between
introduced at the same time cease-fire lines.
as the Jackson Amendment
A military spokesman said
on Oct. 4.
the air battle took place at
All the legislation, including 1 p.m. local time when the
the Nixon administration's MIG attempted to interfere
Fast-West Trade Relations with an Israeli aerial patrol
Act, must he resubmitted this in Israeli air space.
The Syrian plane was seen
session because It failed to
pass before Congress ad- crashing into a hill on the
journed.
Lebanese side of the Syrian-
Rep. Vanik's office issued Lebanese border. All Israeli
letters last week appealing aircraft returned safely to
for new support. So far, five their bases.
The incident was the latest
of the 69 freshmen represent.
atives have responded with in a week of tension along
the
Israeli-Syrian line, dur-
pledges to co-sponsor the bill.
The East-West Trade Rela- ing which Syrian artillery
shelled Israeli settlements
tions Act, introduced by Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson (D. and Israel air force jets
twice
attacked terrorist
Wash.), is crucial to the ex-
pansion of U.S.-Soviet trade. strongholds and army posi.
Magnuson's office told the lions inside Syria.
Israeli jets bombed the
JTA it had set no date for
reintroducing its trade legis- Syrian army camp at Nahk,
lation. According to an aide 40 miles north of Damascus.
Saturday night without in-
in Jackson's office, "The Nix-
on administration is spending terference from Syrian jets.
a lot of time trying to cir- Syrian MiGs have been fly-
ing reconnaisance along the
cumvent our move."
cease-fire line since Sunday,
Anxiety Over Fate
but none crossed into Israeli
of Valery Kukui
air space until Tuesday.
"MICHIGAN'S LARGEST INVENTORY!"
LONDON (JTA) — There
Israeli circles said they did
is great anxiety over the fate not expect the border situa-
of Valery Kukui, the Sverd- t ion to deteriorate to allout
lovsk Jewish activist who is warfare. They said Israel
serving a three-year sentence will continue to maintain
in the forced labor camp of p ressure on Syria to end ter-
TELEGRAPH Just South of 12 Mile
Novaya Liana.
r orist incursions across the
Across from Tel-Twelve Mall
Last July he was sentenced c ease-fire line.

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