Nixon Administration Retains Stand Against Jackson Amendment

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D r . Kissinger asserted:
"We, the administration and
the President, very strongly
hold the view which I ex-
pressed before I left, that the
MFN status with the Soviet
Union is an integral part of
the whole complex of nego-
tiations and should not be
isolated as a separate Amer-
ican measure for which we
can exact additional conces-
sions."
Some observers here felt
that Dr. Kissinger was un-
derstating the temper of
Congress when he described
the J a c k s on Amendment
which enjoys overwhelming
support in the Senate as a
form of "some opposition" to
the administration's t r a de
bill.
Dr. Kissinger told the news-
men: "We have in the past
brought to the attention of
the Soviet leaders the impact
of the Jewish question on the
American domestic situation.
As you know, we have made
considerable progress in the
sense that the Soviet leaders
have formally acknowledged
that they are waiving the exit
tax, and you can assume that
whenever we meet, an occas-
ion is found to bring this to
the attention of the Soviet
leaders."
Mayor John V. Lindsay of
New Yo r k , who returned
from a visit to the USSR
over the weekend, told tele-
vision news reporters that the
condition of Jews there was
as bad as ever.- City Hall an-
nounced that Lindsay would
issue a full report on his
Russian visit at a later date.
Rumors spread by Soviet
officials and others that large
numbers of Soviet Jewish
immigrants in Israel wish to
leave for other parts was
firmly put down by Secretary
of State William P. Rogers.
Testifying before the House
Ways and Means Committee,
Rogers said that the number
of immigrants dissatisfied
with Israel and wishing to
leave was "miniscule." As
with any nation where there
is a large influx of immi-
grants, he said, there are
those who cannot. make the
adjustment. He complimented
Israel on its absorption of the
immigrants.
Rogers asked the House
Ways and Means Committee
to "permit us to handle" the
Soviet emigration issue in
"diplomatic channels" on the
basis of assurances given
President Nixon by the Soviet
government. Rogers said he
could not make public "the
texts of confidential commun-
ications on this subject but
I believe the assurances are
firm."
He t old the 25-member
committee t h a t Brezhnev
would be unable to make
progress in the field of Soviet-
American trade if the Soviet
leaders believe the U.S. is
discriminating against their
country. Rogers made the
statements while urging the
committee to approve the
Nixon administration's r e -
quest to grant most-favored-
nation treatment for the
Soviet Union.
The National Interreligious
Task Force on Soviet Jewry,
opening its two-day executive
session Monday, heard R.
Sargent S h r i v e r say that
Christians are now increas-
ingly concerned w i t h the

problems of Soviet Jewry.
About 50 religious leaders
from across the country, vir-
tually all Christian, attended
the opening session at the
New York Ave. Presbyterian
Church.
The Task Force, founded
in Chicago in March 1972,
conducted an interfaith serv-
ice Tuesday night at the Lu-
ther Place Memorial Church.
The Rev. Robert F. Drinan,
a Jesuit priest, led a candle-
light procession of "prayer
and witness" from the church
past the Soviet embassy.
The Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, by a 10-4
vote, adopted an amendment
to the State Department's au-
thorization bill introduced by
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D.
Maine) calling for an addi-
tional $36,500,000 to be ear-
marked for the resettlement
of Soviet Jewish immigrants
in Israel during the 1974 fis-
cal year beginning July 1.
An identical provision, sub-
mitted in the House by Rep.
Jonathan Bingham (D. NY)
is expected to be voted on by
the end of this week by the
Foreign Affairs Committee.
The Muskie-Bingham meas-
ures bring the authorization
for expenditures on Soviet
Jews in Israel by the State
Department to $85,000,000.
The funds, both last year
and in the current session,
stemmed from congressional
impetus. The Nixon adminis-
tration did not request the
funding in either session but
it complied with the congres-
sional action.
Lindsay Tells Moscow Jews
There Is A Glimmer of Hope
for Exit Visas
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Mayor John V. Lindsay told
a group of Jewish scientists
and intellectuals in Moscow
May 8 that there was "a
glimmer of hope" that they

Rep. Biaggi Charges
NY City Agencies
Shun Jewish Poor

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Congressman Mario Biaggi
of New York charged city
agencies are treating the
"Jewish poor as second-class
citizens and have neglected
their need for too long."
This situation, he noted,
has been brought into focus
"by congressional testimony
which indicates widespreal
discrimination against mem-
bers of the Jewish faith and
other ethnic groups n the
poverty areas."
At the same tine, Biaggi
said he supported "continued
and enlarged funding" for the
Metropolitan New York Co-
ordinating Council on Jewish
Poverty, an organization
created to insure services for
the Jewish poor.
Biaggi is one of four candi-
dates running in the New
York mayoral primary.
Among proposals for help-
ing the Jewish poor, Biaggi
called for additional senior
citizen centers within com-
munities wher poverty pre-
vails—and expansion of gov-
ernment rent subsidies and
social service programs; ex-
pansion of existing day care
centers to meet the needs
of the Jewish poor; and re-
structuring of the Community
Action Program, now admin-
istered by the Council Against
Poverty through the Com-
munity Development Agency.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, May 18, 1973
Classifieds Get Quick Results

might get the exit visas so
far denied them by Soviet
authorities. Lindsay spoke
with seven Moscow Jews
who, through an interpreter,
told him of their struggle to
emigrate and the humiliation
and harassment they have
suffered as a result.
According to reports from
the Soviet capital last week,
Lindsay met with the Jewish
activists at a suite in Mos-
cow's posh Sovietskaya Hotel
w h e re visiting dignitaries
stay. Earlier in the day he
met with Premier Al e x e i
Kosygin and Deputy Interior
Minister Boris T. Shumilin,
with w h o m he reportedly
brought up the problem of
Jewish emigration.
His visitors included Dr.
Benjamin Levich, 56, world-
famed theoretical physicist
who was fired from Moscow
University after applying for
a visa in March 1972 and
now faces expulsion from the
Soviet Academy of Science
where he was demoted from
a department head to the
status of technical worker.
Others who met with Lind-
say included Vladimir Sle-
pak, 45, a physicist who was
dropped from his post as a
laboratory chief in the TV
Research Institute and now
works as an 80-ruble-a-month
bottle washer. Levich's son,
Evgeny, 25, also attended the
meeting.
Lindsay had reportedly in-
tended to meet with the Jew
ish activists at one of their
homes. But his host, Mayor
Vladimir F. Promyslov, re-
portedly said it would be
more proper for the Jews to
visit him at the hotel. Lind-
say is in Moscow to return
Promyslov's v i s it to New
York last February.
Jewish sources in the Soviet
Union reported that Jewish
activists lit 30 candles in the
Moscow synagogue to mark
the 30th anniversary of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry reported that
of the 130 Jews assembled
May 9 in a Moscow park to
celebrate Israel's 25th anni-
versary 30 were children. A
SSSJ spokesman said this
was "very unusual because
activists do not normally

bring young children with
them for rallies or demon-
strations." Eleven of the 130
Jews remained in the park
overnight and at 5 a.m. the
next morning were arrested
by militia, the SSSJ reported.
They were held in jail for
six hours and released.
Minsk "Show Trial"
for Artist Ex-Officer
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
"show trial" will open in
Minsk shortly of Col. Yepim
Davidovitz, a retired Jewish
officer of the Red Army, and
Gedalya Kipnis, an artist
allegedly involved with Col.
Davidovitz. Jewish sources in
Moscow reported that three
other Jewish army officers
face charges and that the
KGB (secret police) is con-
ducting a wide-ranging in-
vestigation of prominent Jews
in Minsk.
The charges against David-
vitz include disseminating
pro-Israel propaganda a n d
Zionist literature and "other
anti-Soviet activities."
Kipnis, who had an exit
visa and was leaving Russia
when he was hauled off the
train and arrested at the last
border check point, is ac-
cused of smuggling a letter
out of the country. He is also
charged with illegal posses-
sion of fire arms — a pistol
he allegedly gave Col.
Davidovitz.
The sources said the other
Jewish officers under investi.
gation are Col. Lev Obsitch-
er, Col. Nahum Olshanski
and Capt. Boris Alouf. They
had applied for exit visas but
were turned down. Cols. Ob-
sitcher and Olshanski are
both military academy grad-
uates and hold 15 decorations
for their service in World
War II. Both were demoted
to 'privates and had their
pensions suspended three
years ago after they criticized
official anti-Semitism in the
USSR.
Several hundred former
Minsk Jews now in Israel
have appealed to Sen. Vance
Hartke (D. Ind.) to intervene
on behalf of Col. Davidovitz
and Kipnis. A petition pre-
pared by the Public Council
for Soviet Jewry here was
presented to U.S. Attorney

Leon Charney, an adviser to
Sen. Hartke, who is in Israel
on a private visit. Charney
promised to relay the petition
to the senator by telephone
and said he would fill in the
details of the situation of
Minsk Jews when he returns
home. Sen. Hartke was one
of a group of seven U.S. sen-
ators (Michigan Senator Rob-
ert Griffin among them) who
visited Moscow recently and
had a long meeting with
Soviet Communist Party Sec-
retary Leonid I. Brezhnev.
Meanwhile, the Soviet se-
cret police (KGB) has told 50
Russian Jews that they would
receive exit visas if they
signed confessions implicat-
ing Col. Davidovitz the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress said it
learned Friday in a telephone
conversation with a leading
Moscow activist.
The Jewish source reported
that the 50 Jews are being
investigated by t h e KGB'.
They had been t o 1 d , the
source disclosed, that refusal
to cooperate in implicating
Davidovitz would result in
their being brought to trial
along with the retired army
colonel.
Panov Accused of Anti-Soviet
Propaganda, as Well as
Contact With Foreigners
LONDON (JTA) —Charges
of anti-Soviet propaganda and
contact with foreigners have
been brought against Valery
Panov, the ballet dancer who
was fired from Leningrad's
Kirov Ballet after he applied
for an exit visa to go to
Israel.
Jewish sources in the So-
viet U n i o n reported that
Panov was summoned to the
KGB' (secret police) head-

quarters where the charges
were presented to him. He
refused to sign the charge
sheet.
Moshe Mendelevich, t h e
father of Yosef Mendelevich,
a Leningrad trial defendant
serving a 12-year sentence ai
a strict regime labor camp,
has been ordered to leave the
Soviet Union by May 24, Jew-
ish sources in the S o v iet
Union reported.
The sources said the elder
Mendelevich was told by the
head of the Riga visa bureau
that his Soviet citizenship has
been revoked and that he
must leave for Israel.
He has refused to leave as
long as his son is in prison.
On May 9 he was vis by
police at his home al._ was
warned that if he is not out
of the country by May 24 he
would be placed on a plane
forcibly as a stateless person,
the sources said.
Some 10,000 Soviet Jews
Came to Israel Between
January and April
JERUSALEM ( J T A ) —
Moshe Rivlin, director gen-
eral of the Jewish Agency,
said that some 10,000 Jewish
immigrants from the Soviet
Union reached Israel between
Jan.-April of this year.
He said between 60- and
70,000 immigrants were ex-
pected to arrive from all
countries this year with sharp
increases from Argentina and
Uruguay.

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