White House Pressure on Trade At Reported

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WASHINGTON—The White month now. He said the USSR
`House badly wants an East- regards the exit fees as an
West Trade Act; And it is internal matter, "and we
making its wishes known have to deal with the situa-
none:WSubtly to those who tion as it exists.
seek an end to the Soviet
The White House refused to
immigration restrictions on comment, but did not deny,
Jews,
a report that Premier Golda
Secretary of State William Meir of Israel, at her meet-
P. Rogers said Sunday on ing with President Nixon
CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" March 1, "was given, along
that denial by Congress of with promises of continuing
most - favored -- nation. status aid, warning of conflict
for the Soviet Union in trade ahead" between Israel and
legislation "would be a very the U.S.
serious setback to our for- The alleged warning was
eign policy toward Russia. reported by syndicated col-
Insistence that the Soviet umnist Marquis Childs in the
Union alter its policy of char- Washington Post Tuesday. Ac-
ging exit fees fcr Jews wish- cording to Childs, Mrs. Meir
ing to emigrate to Israel "is was told that "The United
the wrong way to do it," he States cannot dictate the
said. He emphasized "quiet emigration policy of the So-
diplomacy" on the part of viet Union."
the U.S. and insisted- that
Replying to a question by
this has increased the num-
her of Jews allowed to leave the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
Russia from a few hundred CY' White House Deputy
in 1970 to about 3,000 a Press Secretary Gerald War-
ren said "I am not comment-
ing on that report."
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Asked if the current visit
14—Friday, March 16, 1973 to Moscow by Secretary of
the Treasury George P.
Schultz for trade discussions
with Soviet officials was part
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A major topic of debate in
is whether the
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Soviet Union will back down
on its emigration head tax
in order to secure trade con-
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to an easing of the Soviet
emigration policy, reportedly
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a face-saving formula be-
cause of their food shortage
and economic troubles.
But White House aides di-
rectly concerned with the
matter were said to be less
optimistic.
Sources here said that
Schultz was trying to ob-
tain assurances from Rus-
sian officials that the So-
viet Union would permit
more Jews to emigrate. But
according to reports from
Moscow, Western observers
believe a dramatic break-
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Meanwhile, a spokesman
for the Export Import Bank
said that the first scheduled
credit for the Soviet Union
under the East West Trade
Act signed last October has
been delayed.

The spokesman said the
delay was caused by legal
details. Administration
sources denied that it was
connected in any way with
Schultz' talks in Moscow.
On the even of Schultz's ar-
rival in Moscow, some 300
Jewish intellectuals appeal
ed to U. S. congressional
leaders for help in emigrat-
ing to Israel.
In an open letter to Sen.
Jackson and Rep. Wilbur D.
Mills, the signers stated
that public opinion in the
West has already been a sig-

nificant factor in enabling ly was anxious to avoid the
Soviet Jews to emigrate.
cancellation of visits by So-
viet artists to Britain.
Emigration From USSR
But Soviet Embassy offi-
Same First 2 Months as '72
WASHINGTON (JTA) — cials refused to accept a
Jewish emigration from the petition on behalf of the Pan-
Soviet Union bound for Is- ovs delivered to the embassy
rael continued at approxi- gates by a group of demon-
mately the same rate during strating actors and dancers.
Panov, once the leading
the first two months of this
year as during 1972 when ap- male dancer of the Kirov
proximately 31.500 reached Ballet, is considered by many
Israel. a well-placed State to be the greatest dancer in
Department official informed the world today, ranking with
the Jewish Telegraphic Nijinsky • and Nureyev. He
is Jewish and his wife is
Agency.
About 5,000 Jews emigrated not. Their dismissals mean
during January and Febru- that they cannot dance pro-
ary, the official said. Dur- fessionally in the Soviet
ing the week ending March Union and are unable to
3, the number was 572, practice with other profes-
which was described as av- sionals.
erage.
In the year since his dis-
missal, Panov's health has
Harman Cites Eight Cases
declined steadily, according
as Evidence of Harassment
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Eight to friends.
The New York Society for
cases in which Jews who
have applied for exit visas Clinical Psychiatry has writ-
got into trouble with So- ten to Soviet Premier Aleksei
viet authorities were cited Kosygin protesting the head
by Avraham Harman, presi- tax and appealing on behalf
dent of the National Council of Dr. Meinhardt Tropper of
for Soviet Jewry, as evi- Moscow.
Mikhail Korenblit's ulcer
dence of a pattern of delib-
has severely wors-
erate harassment and intimi- condition
ened,
the
Greater
New York
dation intended to dissuade
Jews from applying for emi- Conference on Soviet Jewry
learned. Korenblit, serving a
gration.
Harman, president of He- seven-year term as a result
brew University, mentioned of the second Leningrad trial,
two brothers, Grigori and developed ulcers while in the
camp.
Yasha Goldstein in Tblisi. labor
Physicist Alexander Tiom-
Georgia, who were arrested kin,
who faces trial on char-
shortly after applying for ges of
insulting the Soviet
exit visas.
by calling it "fascist,"
In Rostov, Labar Lubarsky militia
asks that holiday greetings
was sentenced to four years' be
sent to his daughter Ma-
imprisonment for allegedly rina,
has been taken
slandering the Soviet Union away who
from him because the
and giving away secret doc- two want
emigrate to Is-
uments, the nature of which rael. Such to
messages, he said,
were never revealed, after would give hope to Marina
he applied for permission to and impress the authorities
leave, Harman said.
with the depth of public con-

.

In Minsk, former Col. Ye-
fim Davidowitch was hospit-
alized for a heart attack
after undergoing a series of
interrogations by the KGB
(secret police) and has been
threatened with confinement
to a mental institution be-
cause his insistence on free
emigration for Jews is con-
sidered a sign of mental in-
stability, Harman said.
The Matzevitch family in

Minsk has not been allowed
to take their 3-year-old
daughter to Israel because
her non-Jewish grandmother
demands custody of the child,
Harman said.
Meanwhile, Valery Panov
and his wife Galina, ousted
from Leningrad's famed Ki-
rov Ballet after requesting
visas to emigrate to Israel,
have a star-studded cast of
British and American per-
formers and writers cam-
paigning in their behalf.
Sir Lawrence Olivier, Paul
Scofield, Paul Newman,
Joanne Woodward, Arthur
Miller, Dustin Hoffman, Ten-
nessee Williams and chore-
ographer Sir Frederick Ash-
ton head an international
campaign pressing Soviet
authorities to grant the Pan-
ovs permission to leave the
USSR,
In addition, the casts of 20
current London theatrical
productions have joined the
international campaign for
the Panovs.

Sir Lawrence recently vis-
ited the Soviet ambassador
in London, Mikhail Smirnov-
ski who agreed after some
hestitation to communicate
with Moscow regarding the
Panovs.

The ambassador apparent-

cern in the West.

Since Tiomkin
doesn't
know where Marina is being
held, he asks that cable-
grams and letters be address.
ed to: Marina Tiomkin, c/o
Supreme Soviet of the USSR,
the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.
Viktor Yoran. the 36-year-
old Russian-born Jewish cel-
list, attempted to deliver
an appeal to the Soviet gov-
ernment to allow his wife,
their son and his mother
who are in Moscow to reunite
with him in Israel. But the
Soviet Embassy passed word
through a special U.S. police
officer on guard duty that
it would not accept his letter.
Mrs. Faye L. Schenk, past
president of Hadassah and
now chairman of the Hadas-
sah Medical Organization, re-
ported that six Jewish wo-
men staged a two-day hunger
strike outside the Central
Post Office in Kishinev
March 7 in protest against
the Moldavian Interior Min-
istry's refusal to grant their
families exit visas for Israel.

Alexander Galperin, who
recently completed a 22-
year sentence in a strict re-
gime Soviet labor camp, has
been granted an exit visa
and is expected to leave for
Israel within two weeks, it
was learned.

Soviet authorities however,
are still refusing a visa to
Valery Vudka, who was sen-
tenced to three years im-
prisonment in May 1971 and
released last August from a
strict regime labor camp.
The Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry reported that
educated Jews in Kiev are
having a difficult time rais-

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ing money for exit fees and ing affidavits for Soviet Jews
that consequently aliya is which have not been acted
slackening.
upon by Soviet officials. De-
spite the welcome increase
Soviet Official Rapped
in emigration in 1972, this
for Statement on Numbers
only
represented one-fourth
of Jews Who Receive Visas
of those Jews known to have
'NEW YORK (JTA) — The such affidavits."
National Conference on So-
The NCSJ accused Alkhi-
viet Jewry accused 'a high-
mov
of distorting the facts
ranking Soviet official of
when
he asserted that "only
"playing a dangerous num-
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bers game" when he claim-
ed in Washington last week
that most Jews seeking to
OFFICIAL-9r— AGENCY
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ceive visas.
The NCSJ referred to re-
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