' Friday, April 6, 1973-17 HE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Proscription 26001 COOLIDGE HWY: — OAK PARK , Senator Jackson Relates Tragedy of Yampolsky Family (Continued from Page 1) Several months ago, and then only after a year-long c a m p a i g n during which Mark, now 25, was twice ar- rested and imprisoned, he and his young wife were per- PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD KRINKLE PATENT ... WITH A FASHION ACCENT with jewelled ornamentation . . . and your choice of $3500 all-over Krinkle . . . or Krinkle and Suede. 11 The Princeton Shop is the place for Dad & Sons Boys' sizes 8-20 Slims & Huskies 11 7 Mile and Evergreen KE 3-4310 — Detroit Thurs., Fri. til 9 Saturday til 7:30 Plaza Maple at Orchard Lake Rds. 851-3660—West Bloomfield Old Orchard Shopping Mon., Thurs., Fri. 9-9 Tues., Wed., Sat. til 6 RINCETON ForYoung Men Eight to Eighty MASTER CHARGE BANKAMERICARD PRINCETON CHARGE mitted to buy their freedom from the Soviet government. They paid more than 10,000 rubles for two exit visas and, along with Eleanora's grand- father, they left Kiev to go to Israel. Unhappily Elea- nora's parents, and her sister — the Poltinnikov family from Novosibirsk, Siberia — were not so fortunate. They have seen each of seven re- quests for an exit visa turned down cold by the Russian authorities. Dr. Isaac Poltinnikov, Mark's father-in-law, is an outstanding ophthalmologist who retired two years ago. Since applying to emigrate from the Soviet Union last summer he has had his only income, his retirement pen- sion, terminated. He and his family have suffered cease- lss ordeals and abuses in- cluding the imprisonment of his wife and daughter (Elea- nora's sister) on charges of having petitioned the Soviet authorities for an exit visa. Last week the Poltinnikovs were again denied permis- sion to emigrate and, in des- peration, they began a hunger strike at the central telephone office in Novosibirsk. Elea- nora and Mark also resorted to a hunger strike — she in London, he in Washington — when Eleanora was told by the Russian authorities this week that: "Your parents will never be allowed to emi- grate." Yesterday the Poltinnikov family was refused medical attention at the central tele- phone office in Novosibirsk. After six days of starvation Eleanora's mother, who is a diabetic, suffered a medical crisis that required her to terminate her protest. The family, as far as ever from having the right to emigrate, is recuperating in the apart- ment of friends in Novosi- birsk. The government of the So- viet Union has simply and clearly terrorized the Poltin- nikov family. What sense is there in the cruel torture of these innocent human beings? What legitimate policy of the Soviet government is served by keeping them, against their will, from emigrating to freedom? Mr. President, it seems clear that the Soviet govern- ment is terrorizing the Pol- tinnikov family in order to discourage others who wish to emigrate from applying for exit permits. Soviet citi- zens who apply for permis- sion to emigrate are rou- tinely fired from their jobs or relieved of their pensions — like Dr. Isaac Poltinnikov they are left destitute. Soviet authorities hope to deter through fear and intimidation, through harassment, through imprisonment in corrective labor camps, in jails and in institutions for the mentally ill. Last week's managed news of a significant shift in So- viet emigration policy was a fraud — and a transparent one at that. There is more truth in Mark Yampolsky and his hunger strike on 16th Street than in all the articles, all the broadcasts, all the Tass releases and diplomatic assurances that last week sought to extenuate, explain and obscure. The Soviet gov- ernment has penned in the Poltinnikov family in Novosi- birsk and it is doing the same thing to thousands of other men, women and children all over the Soviet Union. Before last November's presidential elections, as many senators will recall, the Soviets permitted a num- ber of families to emigrate without payment of the edu- cation ransom. Immediately after the election the ransom was reimposed. This followed the pattern that had been set before last year's Moscow summit when, again, a "tac- tical liberalization" of Soviet emigration -p olicy was fol- lowed by a relapse into the old pattern of harassment and denial. I must say that I am amazed that the Soviet authorities thought, as ap- parently they did, that last week's selective release of a few families in Moscow at bargain basement prices would f ool the American people. The fact is that for every Soviet citizen who was unable financially to pay the notorious education ransom there were — and are — hun: dreds who cannot buy a visa at any price. The fact that some visas are being sold at discount prices is little com- fort to the thousands who are not being permitted to buy. Only a policy of granting every legitimate applicant a visa within a fixed and rea- sonable period of time can alter that. Mr. President, when one compares last week's hints from Moscow with this week's reality, it becomes clear that there can be no effective sub- stitute for the passage of my amendment—cosponsored by 76 senators — to deny most- favored - nation treatment, credits, credit guarantees and investment guarantees to states that deny their citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate. This amendment gives the Soviets an incentive to permit free emigration — and it provides a sanction if they do not, either now or at any time in the future. By requiring a semi-annual re- port of compliance, we in the Congress can be assured that any positive change in Soviet emigration policy could not be reversed without the loss of MFN and the other trade and credit benefits. Mr. President, I wish to be clear: I will not put a dollar sign on freedom. I intend to keep faith, as I am certain my colleagues do, with young Mark Yampolsky and with the thousands of brave men and women whose watch he is keeping. -(The State Department dis- closed Tuesday that it has made formal and informal representations on humani- tarian grounds to the Soviet Embassy on behalf of Mark Yampolsky's family. (State -Department spokes- man John King disclosed that the department had rejected a request from the Soviet Embassy that it intervene to end Yampolsky's hunger strike. King said the embassy made the request on March 26, the day Yampolsky be- gan his fast. 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They also apply on station-to-station calls placed with an operator where direct dialing facilities are not available. - Michigan Bell Don't hesitate to call Jackson Amendment An Internal U.S. Matter, Mrs. ;weir Tells Press TEL miry (JTA) — Pre- mier Golda Mpir said here that Israel's attitude toward the basic freedom of soviet Jews to emigrate transcc:nd7. the Jackson Amendment, which is an internal affair of the United States. She said the current controversy over the amendment was a matter for the U.S. to solve. Mrs. Meir answered ques- tions at a press luncheon here Friday. She expressed skep- ticism at press reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Eliot Richardson had said the U.S. was restraining the delivery of certain modern weapons to Israel to prevent increased tension in the Middle East and to avoid an arms race. Mrs. Meir said she could not imagine that the defense sec- retary would publicly con- tradict her own statements on U.S. arms supplies. The premier said that she had not mentioned any par- ticular type of weapons or any quantities in reporting, on her talks with U.S. offi- cials in Washington last month. "I did say that agree- ment had been reached in principle on the supply of certain important items while other types of weapons were still under discussion." Continued Pressure Urged by Pincus JERUSALEM (JTA)—Louis Pincus, chairman of the Jew- ish Agency Executive, has urged continued pressure on the Soviet government to end restrictions on Jewish emi- gration to Israel. The number of Jewish academicians exempted from paying the education head tax is increasing, but that does not necessarily indicate anything significant in terms of the long-range policies of the Soviet authorities, Pincus told a Jewish Agency meet- ing Monday. He said that even if the diploma tax, is lifted, it would not signal an end to the prob- lems of liberating Soviet Jews. "There is nothing that could justify a reduction in the fight to- free the Jews from Russia," Pincus added, noting that Jews in the U.S., Britain and other countries were continuing the struggle. Pincus reported that efforts were also under way to rescue Jews in Syria and Iraq. Leaflets Protesting Treatment of Jews at Soviet Art Show WASHINGTON ( J T A ) — Students f r o m Washington- Baltimore area universities distributed leaflets protesting t h e treatment of Russian Jews Sunday to visitors at the National Art Gallery where an exhibition opened of French impressionist and post - impressionist paintings owned by the Soviet govern- ment. Mrs. Michael Shapiro, chairman of the Soviet Jewry Committee of Greater Wash- ington which is sponsoring the leaflet distribution, said the protest would continue for the entire - 30 days of the ex- hibit except for the Sabbath and the Passover holiday. In New York, five Demo- cratic mayoral candidates en- dorsed a "freedom march" for Soviet Jews Tuesday at a news conference called by the Greater New York Con- ference on Soviet Jewry. The Soviet Jewry Conference is (Continued on Page 18)