Russian Exit Tax Reports Create Worldwide Doubts

"Soviet authorities have
maintained for some time
that 90 per cent of the Jewish
applicants for ,emigration had
been ganted visas and that
only a small. ,percentage of
intellectuals were being bar-
red, for state consideration.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"In an open letter circu-
Friday, March 30, 1973--7
lating here, 40 Jewish intel-
lectuals warned that the tax-
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visas, regardless of the sta-
tus of the education tax. They
said that in Moscow alone,
seven had been turned down
in the last three days.

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latest waivers from the edu- Jewish applicants for exit that his amendment would and old fashioned" anti-Sem-
cation tax as 'a pleasant visas in a general way." He be "interference" in the So- itism and "spreading racial
occurrence in itself." But added, however, that "it viet Union's internal affairs. hatred."
The charges were leveled
In discussing energy prob-
they cautioned that it ap- may be that there is the in-
by
a score of experts and
lems,
Jackson
observed
that
peared part of an official evitable time lag between
Soviet effort to persuade for- the initiation of a new policy the $20,000,000,000 research witnesses, including a Nobel
eigners, particularly t h e and its application by the program he is advocating for Prize winner, Rene Cassin,
the next 10 years would at the opening session of a
American Congress, t h a t bureaucrats."
The Jewish Agency chair- "show the foreign countries, suit brought by the Inter-
Jewish emigration had
man, who is attending meet- especially the Middle East" national League Against Anti-
`reached a golden age.'
ings
of the Conference of that "we have an alterna- Semitism (LICA) against a
"The American embassy
Soviet Embassy publication.
repeated today that it had Jewish Organizations there, tive" in fuels and will not be
The official "Review of So-
subjected
to
"blackmail."
recalled
a
recent
statement
yet to receive any official
viet
Information Services"
by
Soviet
Interior
Minister
Meanwhile, two Midwest- wrote
confirmation from the Soviet
last September that
government that the educa- Boris Shumilin that it was ern senators, Charles Percy "According to the funda-
not
against
Soviet
law
for
(R.
Ill.)
and
Walter
Mon-
tion taxes for emigrants had
mental conception (of the
been suspended indefinitely, People to ask for permissioq dale (D. Minn.), expressed Bible) the world should be-
despite claims to that effect to emigrate. "Nevertheless," strong support for free emi- long to the following of the
by well-connected So v i e t Pincus said, "people in the gration of Soviet citizens, in- powerful God Johovah."
journalists and other well- Soviet Union are still being cluding Jews.
The article added that "Ac-
harassed after having ap-
placed Soviet informants.
Sen. Mondale told the ap- cording to the rules (of the
plied
for
exit
visas;
people
proximately 500 delegates Talmud and Torah) entire
"Jewish sources contended
that rejection of applicants in the Soviet Union are still and guests at the 40th anni- generations of Israelis have
this week demonstrated that languishing in prisons and versary conference of the been inculcated from the cra-
the basic Soviet policy had forced labor camps, although American Jewish. Congress' dle with the hatred of other
not changed and that, al- their only crime was to want women's division here that, nations."
though working class • people to leave the Soviet Union for "We must have official as-
LICA, basing itself on
surances from the. Soviet goy-.
and clerks might get permis- Israel."
Pincus said: "One thing is ernment and from our own French law, sued the publica-
sion fairly routinely, permis- certain—and
we have had it government" that the Soviet tion for "incitement to racial
sion was granted to skilled
specialists on an arbitrary confirmed in the last few education tax on emigrants hatred and anti-Semitism,"
days in various ways — the will not be imposed in the
Among th witnesses were
basis.
Soviet regime is rather sen-
"0 thers suggested that sitive to world public opinion. future. He referred to the two Catholic priests, Father
permission was being with- I hope that Jewish activities Jackson Amendment's pro- Riquet and the Rev. J. P.
held for the most prominent on behalf of Soviet Jews will vision that the President Braun. Both said they were
must certify suitable Soviet "shocked and surprised" at
figures until the peak of the not relax."
behavior on 'emigration if the accusations leveled by the
congressional debate over
JERUSALEM (JTA)—For- it is to obtain U.S. govern- Soviet at the Jewish people
trade concessions and would eign
officials so far ment trade benefits and as a whole.
be granted at the most deli- have Ministry
been
unable
offer a credits.
A verdict is expected next
cate moment to try to swing hard assessment of to what
the
Addressing the conference's month.
the balance in Moscow's apparent relaxations of the
opening dinner, AJCongress
favor."
diploma tax bodes for President Rabbi Arthur Hertz-
In an _ interview by As- Soviet
future. "All we know is berg, denounced any attempt Israeli Writer
sociated Press, Dr. Ben- the
that some scores of Jews to relieve pressure on the
jamin G. Levich, top-ranking have
y -a •
been exempted," one Soviet government on the nits
Isolationist
Hits
Jewish scientist in Russia, official
said. "We do not emigration issue. "Soviet
who was demoted to the low-
if this is a transient Jews are not for sale tint
est rank in the research in- know
Spirit in Israel
move or the beginning of
stitute department of Mos- something more permanent." here nor anywhere," he said.
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Prof.
cow State University, where
F or e i g n Minister Abba The Tragic Odyssey
Amnon Rubinstein, a feature
he once held the top post, Eban, who briefed the cab- of Julius Krylsky
was skeptical about the re- inet on the subject Sunday,
NEW YORK (JTA) — The writer for the leading Hebrew
port of the abandonment of is understood to have said odyssey of Julius Krylsky daily, Haaretz, has strongly
the education tax by the much the same= thing. Ab- continued here this week deplored what he calls the
USSR. According to the AP sorption Minister Nathan as the '71 - year - old engi- "spirit of isolationism" ap-
report, Dr. Levich, who is Peled said in an interview neer, formerly of the Soviet parent in . many Israeli cir-
being denied a visa to go to that he thought there was a Union, sought to publicize cles.
According to Rubinstein,. a'
Israel, "called the exception "good chance" that the Rus- the tragic story of his son.
'a small gift' to mollify crit- sians meant to freeze but not Jan, aged 21, incarcerated part of the Israel public and
ics of the United States Con- to cancel the education tax for more than a year in a So- its leadership feels that when-
ever a non-Jew is critical of
gress who have said that on Soviet Jews. He added viet mental institution.
they will vote against most- that only time would tell if
Krylsky, allowed to emi- Israel he is immediately
favored-nation trading for the move to end the ransom e. rate to Israel in November typed as being either an anti-
the Soviet Union unless it tax was permanent.
1972, prior to the United Semite or an enemy of the
lifts barriers to emigration."
States
presidential election, state. When the criticism
The AP report on Dr. Le- Sen. Jackson Scores
hopes
to
use his new mobil- comes from Jewish sources
vich states "The scientist Lobbying by Soviet
ity
and
freedom
to work for it is only evidence of Jewish
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
maintained hope that con-
his
son's
release.
Mrs. Kryl- self-hatred.
This unwholesome- reaction,
cern-in the West would even- Sen. Henry M. Jackson de- sky, also granted a visa to
tually influence the author- scribed the Soviet govern- emigrate, chose to remain writes Rubinstein, was much
ities to allow him and his ment's waiver of its educa- behind in hopes of helping in evidence in the Libyan air-
liner incident. The whole
family to emigrate. He re- tion tax on some prospective her son.
world, including those who
called that several Jews who emigrants in the past few
According
to
Krylsky,
Jan
had once been told that they days as "a beginning" and was brought to trial in Octo- are always counted as Israel's
would never leave the coun- "not a substitute for a policy ber 1971, for fighting with a staunchest friends, such as
try got out in October when and a program" of emigra- drunk who had insulted him the Dutch, the Danes and the
the authorities lifted some tion. Reiterating that Con- with anti-Semitic remarks. Norwegians, cannot be ac-
barriers after the Soviet- gressional legislation bearing Although acquitted when the cused of anti-Semitism, he
American trade package was his name on the emigration real offender admitted to the said.
If that were the case, the
signed. 'For this reason,' he issue will be "enacted into court his guilt in starting the
said with a smile, 'it's not law," Jackson, in an address incident, the case was re- professor continued, it would
time for me to start thinking March 22 before the National opened in January 1972 after spell Israel's total isolation
Press Club, lashed out at
in a hostile world, and the
about suicide.' "
the Krylsky family applied
LONDON (JTA) — Louis "lobbying" against it by So- for permission to emigrate to erection of barricades that
would convert Israel into a
Pincus, chairman of the Jew- viet officials in Washington Israel.
ghetto-fortress, renouncing all
ish Agency Executive, said and at its Congessional op-
After the second trial, in hope of collaboration with the
he had "no information" that ponents.
which Jan was de c la red rest of the international com-
(See Editorial, Page 4)
the Soviet Union's education
Jackson told approxi- guilty, Julius Krylsky was munity. Such, a tendency, ac-
tax "had been waived for
mately 400 newsmen includ- told that his son would either cording to Rubinstein, is not
ing Soviet media representa- be given 10 years in a labor only wrong but also fraught
tives that Russians have said camp. or would be institu- with grave danger.
"Only a paranoid believes
here his bill would create tionalized as a "schizophre-
anti-Semitism. In a rising nic" for his "militant Zion- that the whole world is
voice he declared: "They are ism." The family chose the against us; only a megalo-
experts at anti - Semitism. institution believing that Jan maniac believes that we have
They have been at it and would soon be released. A the capacity to fight the whole
world.
against other minorities for year already has passed.
Jan, age 21, incarcerated
"Every Israeli who truly
centuries."
He asked what would hap- Soviet Embassy Publication , loves his country must resist
this unwholesome mood which
pen if American officials in On Trial in Paris
Moscow "lobbied" the Su- For Spreading Anti-Semitism has overcome a portion of
PARIS (JTA) — The Soviet our people, including those in
preme Soviet and added,
"that opportunity is not propaganda services were ac- the government and in the
I LEi.PACK
there." Jackson denounced cused before a French court Knesset," Prof. Rubenstein
as "nonsense" the charges Monday of practicing "gross said.

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