Three-Quarters of Senate Back Jackson Amendment
(Continued from Page 1 ) of foreign trade, was present strate opposition to the ad-
The five include, in addi-
vision without altering its along with K. G. Tretiakov, ministration and the free tion to Prof. Moishezon, Pro- plant in the USSR. They said information of such moves
laws or statutes," Sen. Jack- the Soviet Embassy's com- emigration issue was one fessors David Azbel, -a ch em- they were not against cul- and •none have -taken place
son said.
mercial counselor, and E. V. that attracted many sym- ist; Aleksandr Voronel , a tural exchange but opposed since then.
to the denial by Russia
'The . NCSJ said that except
Bugrov,
counsellor for eco- pathizers in the U. S. apart physicist; Benamin Levic h, a only
He a d d e d: "Unhappily,
of
humanitarianism.
for
one visa applicant,
from its Jewish ramifica- physicist; -and Aleks andr
what is permitted by law has nomic -affairs.
* *
Eduard Shifrin, the group
An -aide of Rep. Peter H. tions.
not been allowed in practice"
Lerner, a specialist in a uto-
included no known activists.
in the Soviet Union, the Soviet B. Frelinghuysen ,(R. NJ),
According to the sources mation control, the com mit-
None of them had been pre-
propaganda campaign "to the chairman of the Republican the amendment also has the tee said.
viously denied permission to
contrary." Referring to the Party's Congressional Task support of die-hard anti- Six Moscow Jewish a cti-
leave and some previously
education head tax, Jackson Force on International Eco- Soviet elements in Congress. vists who protested the re-
had
been granted exit visas
asked: "What Soviet citizen nomic Policy, told the JTA
In a strong resolution, fusal by Soviet officials to
but -were subjected to the tax
with an income of 200-300 that Frelinghuysen told the the New York State Legisla- grant them exit visas were
based on their level of edu-
rubles a month can be ex- Russians "of the close con- ture has asked President threatened with arrest u nder
cation, the NCSJ said.
pected to pay 15 to 20,000 nection between the • most Nixon and the Congress to a new ukase issued Dec. 25.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Victor
According to the NCSJ,
rubles to obtain an exit favored national treatment "consider the plight of Soviet
Louis, a Russian journalist several activists, including
for the Soviet Union and the Jews prior to -granting the U. S. Not Ready to Act
visa?"
0
with Kremlin connections Viktor Berlaysky and Dina
Jackson, who submitted his Soviet government's emigra- most favored nation status to n Rabbi in Moscow
who visited Israel in 1971, Deilina, were informed that
WASHINGTON
(JTA)
—
amendment to the last Con- tion tax."
Soviet Union and to call
said Wednesday that Soviet
"Mr. Alkhimov's trip and the
' gress, had s-aid that he would
upon the Soviet government s The State Department de- authorities will no longer im- their applications for visas
the
meetings
he
has
had
cribed as "all hypothetical
have been denied.
not re-introduce it in the new
to
end
its
persecution
of
the
at this point" whether an plement the law promulgated . In Washington congression-
Congress until the adminis- should have given him solid Jews."
American rabbi will be ap- last August which requires
tration presented the East- evidence that members of
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman p ointed for the U. S. Em- holders of academic degrees al leaders demanding an eas-
West Trade Act and he could Congress •are much con- (D.N.Y.)
ing of Soviet emigration pol-
asked President b assy in Moscow.
to pay a tax based on their icies reacted coldly to the
examine it. But he apparently cerned with Soviet emigra- Nixon to express
his
concern
changed his mind in light of tion . policies and that we to the Soviet authorities over
Department spokes man educational level if they wish report that Soviet authorities
the strenuous efforts being (members of Congress) tend the
Charles
Bray said he was to emigrate.
have waived the education
imprisonment of Jan
made by the Soviet Union to link them with the grant- Krylsky,
Louis' dispatch from Mos- tax for a number of Jewish
"aware
of
possible intere st"
26,
in
a
Soviet
men-
and, in particular, by ,a visit- ing of most favored nation tal institution and request in the American Jewish c om- cow was published in the scientists and technicians.
ing Soviet trade delegation, status," Frelinghuysen was that
munity regarding the ap _ newspaper Yedi-ot Ahronot.
Their initial concensus,
he be reunited in Israel pointment
to mobilize opposition to the quoted as having told the
of a rabbi th ere He claimed that while the gathered by the Jewish Tel-
with
his
father,
Julius
Kryl-
Soviet
trio.
amendment, especially in the
but added that he did not tax will not be formally egraphic Agency, was that
Frelinghuysen is not a sup- sky, a 71-year-old engineer. think the department has
American business commu-
abolished, the head office of selective waivers do not re-
In a letter to Nixon, Con-
porter of the Mills-Vanik pro-
nity.
taken official cognizance o f the Ovir, the Soviet visa move the obstacles to emigra-
gresswoman Holtzman said this
pos-al
calling
for
Soviet
with-
interest.
bureau, has confirmed that tion sought -by thousands and
Jackson said: "The Soviets
of emigration restric- that the young Krylsky has
by
the
tax will no longer be possible hundreds of thou-
have gone to some lengths to drawal
Bray
was
questioned
tions which has been spon- been confined since Jan. newsmen after three cler gy_ collected.
sands of Russian Jews.
convey the impression that sored
1972 on a charge of "militant
by
260
representatives.
the the question of free emi- It was learned that E. D. Zionism."
men said in New York t hat
According to reports Tues- Congressional spokesmen
made it clear that Soviet au-
gration is essentially a Jew-
Jewish sources in the So- the Appeal for Conscie nce day from Moscow, over 50 thorities were mistaken if
NAM president, was
ish issue. Their representa- Kenna,
viet Union reported Friday Foundation of which they are JeWs with academic degrees they believe that waivers in
host
at
the
lunch.
Other
NAM
tives, even as guests in this
present included that Valery‘ and Galina Pa- leaders had urged the Sta to were informed ovor the past a few cases will lead to the
country, have resorted to the officials
to give seri ous few days- that they may leave
William
Pollert,
vice presi- nov submitted a new applica- Department
cruel incitement of anti-
consideration to such an ap- the country without paying abandomnentto amendments
tion
for
an
exit
visa
and
dent
for
international
affairs,
Semitic sentiments in an ef-
the diploma tax. With one or to the U.S.-Soviet trade pact,
received another pointment.
fort to scare off support for Eugene Hardy, vice president promptly
The
he
three
clergymen—t
two
exceptions, none of those signed last October, which
refusal. No reason for the
our amendment. Their broad- for governmental relations, refusal
Rev. Donald R. Camp' on, exempted- were "hard-core" command overwhelming sup-
was
given.
and
Nicholas
Hollis,
director
port in both houses.
casts out of Moscow, their
editor-in-chief of the Jes uit activists.
of the international affairs
The sources also reported weekly,
Members of the
English language publica- staff.
America;
the
R
Louis' dispatch hinted that Jewish community also Moscow
that the harassment of Mar- Harold A. Bosley, sen ev.,
tions intended for publication
voiced
for Soviet authorities may con-
here and their diplomatic Among the congressmen garita Shpilberg continues. minister of Christ Churc
skepticism over the waiver
h, Sider refunding the diploma of emigration taxes. .
representatives have been present was Gerald Ford (R. Mrs. Shpilberg, the wife of United Methodist, New Yor k;
pressed into service for this Mich.), the House minority Arkady Shpilberg, _who was and Rabbi Arthur Schnei er, tax. • During the six months
"We are skeptical because
leader.
that the law was implement- these
sentenced in Riga in May of' the Park East Synagog
most odious purpose!'
are only exemptions—
Reports that Israel is be- 1971 to three years' strict New York — recently retu ue, ed, an estimated 300 Jews the tax is still in effect," said
He observed that nothing in ing
pressured by the Nixon labor, was told by Riga ed from a tour of Easte rn- have paid the tax. Louis said one man long active in the
his amendment would pro- administration
. to disown the housing authorities that she Europe and the Soviet Unio rn that if a refund is authoriz- Jewish emigration d r iv e.
hibit any businessman from Jackson
Amendment
n• ed, the money would be
must vacate her flat.
buying or selling to the Soviet denied in Jerusalem were
Rabbi Schneier, Found a- turned over to relatives or "They will continue only as
by
Five leading Jewish scien-
Union. What is at issue is' authoritative sources.
long as the authorities think
tists in the Soviet-Union have tion president, said the thr ee friends of •the Jews who paid it will aid their cause.
whether the U.S. is to extend
had
been
told
last
week
A source close to Premier proposed to Soviet author-
by the tax and have since left
trade concessions to the So-
"They found it politically
a State Department official Russia. The recipients must
Golda Meir told the Jewish ities a series of concrete re- th
viet Union, Jackson said.
advantageous to -do it, just as
Telegraphic Agency that forms which, they said, would b a at "no impediment" should be living in Russia, Louis they
did with the previous -ex-
Sen. Jacob K. J•vits (R. President Nixon made no remove the issue of emigra-
r a rabbi from being sta- said.
emptions.last October - . before
NY), a staunch supporter of such request of Mrs. Meir tion
tioned at the embassy in
from
"the
area
of
arbi-
The exemptions reported the American election."
the Jackson Amendment, ap- at their White House meet- trary and secret actions", to Moscow.
Tuesday were seen as a U SSR Gets Interest Break
pealed to the Soviet Union as ing March 1.
Under the Soviet-American move by Soviet officials to
of "open, formal
"a great power" to help ad- According to the sources, the area
and laws." The pro- agreement of 1933 that estab- mollify a majority of U.S. 0 n Export-Import Bank Deal
vance detente between the the subject of Soviet Jewry rules
WASHINGTON (J T A) —
posals were the first of their lished diplomatic relations congressmen who support
two super powers - on "a was raised at that meeting. kind
between the two govern- amendments pending in the A cting under presidential au-
ever
made
by
a
Jewish
sound moral basis." He ex- Nixon said that he under- group in the USSR, according ments, the United States has
th ority, the U.S. Export-Im-
House and Senate that would p ort Bank signed two agree-
pressed hope that the moral stood the Israeli leader's to
a right to station chaplains deny
Prof.
Hans
J.
Morgenthau
most - favored - nation m ents with the Soviet Union
aspects "will appeal to a concern and added that he of City University, New at its embassy in Moscow.
great power like the Soviet believed in the value of quiet York, chairman of the Aca- Roman Catholic and Pro- status and other trade con- T hursday and Friday -giving
Union," adding that the diplomacy.
cessions to the USSR until
demic Committee on Soviet testant chaplains are already it removes restrictions on cr edits totaling $202,000,000 at
amendment was not drafted
an annual interest rate of 6
stationed there.
But
he
did
not
speak
of
Jewry.
"in a spirit of defiance, con- Mrs. Meir's - intervention in
emigration. The reaction of pe ✓ cent, to be paid in 7-10
The
proposals
were
sum-
Bray
emphasized
that
th
e congressional leaders Tues-
frontation or heedlessness." the debate over the Jackson marized in a statement pre-
ye ars.
Michigan's senior senator, Amendment and it would pared by mathematics Prof. rabbi, if he were statione d day was that selective ex-
Major U.S. banks are now
there,
would
not
serve
Sovie
Philip A. Hart, is one of the have been unthinkable for Boris Moishezon, the only one 'Jews.
emptions did not obviate the eh arging a prime rate of 6 3/4
76 co-sponsors of the Jackson him to have done so, the of the scientific group who
need for the pending mea- pe ✓ cent, which is the mini-
Amendment.
`No
Freedom,
No
Trade,'
sures.
m um interest charge on
sources claimed.
has been permitted to leave Demonstrators Shout
Three Soviet authorities, The sources were com- the
Some sources here regard sh ort-term loans to the larg-
USSR.
According
to
Moi-
who sought to persuade 15 menting on a report by syn- shezon, he and his colleagues
LOS ANGELES,. (JTA)
Louis' report as part of a es t and most -credit-worthy
congressmen, including key dicated Washington column. have asked for:
Chants of "No freedom, n O general Soviet propaganda A merican corporations. The
Republicans, of the advant- ists Rowland Evans and
The enactment and publi- trade" were heard outsid e offensive designed to influ- W orld Bank charges 71/2 per
ages of increased U.S.-Soviet Robert Novak, who said the cation
of a law governing -the Los Angeles Sports Aren a ence public opinion, par- ce nt.
trade, were told of the con- Nixon administration was emigration,
`The administration is try-
would be March 15, as 15,000 specta - ticularly in the U.S. Louis is
gressional concern about getting tough with the Israeli identical in which
-tors filed in to watch a per - seen -by some as -an instru- in g to get in as many deals
all
parts
of
the
Soviet emigration policies to- government over the latter's USSR and under control of formance by visiting Sovie t ment of the Kremlin fre- wi th the Soviet Union as pos-
ward Jews and other citi- support of the measure.
offiCial Soviet organs, such gymnasts. About 75 demon - quently used to carry out sib le before Congress acts on
zens.
They said that -presidential as the procurator's office and strators were protesting So - propaganda missions in the the trade -agreement," said
This conversation occurred, emissaries have let the IS-
Supreme Soviet; -and the Wet emigration restrictions , West on behalf of the Soviet an aide to Sen. Henry Jack-
the JTA was informed, at a raeli government know that the
creation
an official public specifically t h e educatio n leaders. Louis visited Israel son (D., Wash.). The signing
luncheon meeting -at a club "Israel, through the power- organ to of
the Export-Import Bank
-be
with head tax.
in Spring of 1971, ostensibly of
on Capitol Hill, March 12. ful lobby of the American all aspects of concerned
agr cement scheduled for two
emigration
in
They
urged
support
for
the
for
medical
treatment.
He
The luncheon requested by Jewish community must place of the current system Jackson Amendment in the
we eks a•go, was• postponed for
the Soviet embassy, was share major responsibility if in which ovir offices merely Senate and the free emigra met at the time with Simha co mpletion of legal details,
arranged by officials of the the Jackson Amendment accept applications and trans- tion -bill of Reps. Wilbur Mills - •Dinitz, Premier Golda Meir's acc ording to bank spokes-
political secretary, who is
National Association of Manu- passes.
mit decisions reached by and Charles Vanik in the now Israel's ambassador de- me n.
facturers which had spon- Informed sources here said secret
P resident Nixon authorized
commissions.
House which would deny the signate to the U.S.
sored the big U.S.-Soviet the amendment's strong sup-
the
Export-Import Bank to
Proposals also included the USSR most - favored - nation
According to a Louis dis- ar range
trade conference here three port was by no means alto- recognition
credits for the Soviet
of
the
right
of
status
in
trade
with
the
U.S
patch from -Moscow in De-
weeks ago.
gether due to pro-Jewish applicants for emigration to unti 1 obstacles to emigration cember, 1971, an unofficial Un ion last October at the
The head of the Soviet dele- sentiment.
tim e of the signing of the bi-
receive their answers in writ- are removed.
exchange of diplomatic per- late ral trade pact. These are
gation to the.. conference, V.
They said that many con- ten form, instead of only The demonstrators also pro- sonnet
between Israel and the
S. Alkhimov, deputy minister gressmen wanted to demon- orally—as is now the practice
such cerdits granted
tested the sale of Pepsi Cola the USSR was about to take the first
Soviet Union since the
—and
the
right
when
denied
in
•the
arena.
The
Pepsico
24 Friday, March 23, 1973
place.
-Israel
officials
said
Ex port-Import -Bank was
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS permission to appeal.
Corp. plans to build a bottling at the time that they had no fou nded
39 years ago.
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Over? Ploy
Suspected
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