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End 2-Week Hunger Strike

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Six
Jewish scientists broke a 15-
day fast in Moscow Sunday.
They ended their hunger
strike, undertaken to protest
the denial of visas, after re-
peated telephone appeals by
supporters in Israel, the U.S.
and Britain to call off the
fast before their health was
seriously impaired.
Prof. Yuval N e e m a n,
president of Tel Aviv Univer-
sity and chairman of the
Academic Committee for So-
viet Jewry, assured them by
!telephone that the whole
world was by now aware of
their determination to fight
for exit permits.
At first the six Jewish
scientists rejected all tele-
phone appeals. "We don't
Int to die," said Aleksandr
. Lunts, a 49-year-old math-
ematician in whose Moscow
apartment the protestors
were living. "But this is too
important to us. We must
continue our protest."
Acting for 300 Jewish or•
ganization and community
leaders attending the annual
meeting of the National Jew-
ish Community Relations Ad-
visory Council Isaiah Mink-
off, NJCRAC's executive vice
chairman, speaking in Rus-
sian, and Stanley H. Lowell,
chairman of the New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
who conversed in English,
telephoned the Lunts' home
to urge that the fast be ended.
Anatoly Leibgrober, a 24-
year-old mathematician from
Moscow who had joined his
six older colleagues in the
hunger strike two weeks ago,
arrived in Israel June 25.
Leibgrober was unexpect-
edly granted a visa last week
and ordered to leave Russia
in three days. He ended his
fast at that time, with the
agreement of his colleagues.
Asked why he was the only
one of the original seven
hunger strikers permitted to
emigrate, Leibgrober replied
that there is no semblence of
logic in Soviet actions with
regard to Jews.
He said he had joined the
hunger strike because "I was
convinced that while Brezh-
nev is in the U.S. we should
take some action in Moscow
so that the world w o u l d
know the real situation."
Leibgrober said he lost 10
pounds during the week in
which he subsisted on water.
He said the others probably
have lost more weight. Dur-
ing the fast, no doctors visit-
ed the strikers and no pres-
sure was nut on them by
Soviet authorities to discon-
tinue their demonstration.

"Not a word was mentioned
in Russia about the strike,"
Leibgrober said.
Three Jewish scientists in
Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia, have
appealed to the Nobel Prize
Committee in Stockholm to
intervene on behalf of Yev-
geny Levich, a young Rus-
sian-Jewish scientist who has
been sent to a military base
in Siberia despite that fact
that he suffers from a serious
stomach ailment.
The appeal was signed by
Dr. Gregory Goldstein, a phy-
sicist, Dr. Issai Goldstein, a
mathematician, and Dr. Y.
Hellman, a physicist. The
Goldstein brothers were re-
cently threatened with im-
prisonment for alleged anti-
Soviet statements.
In Chicago Sunday, Rep.
Samuel H. Young (R. ni.)
declared that many congress.
men "are not satisfied" with
the Soviet suspension of the
education tax "and intend
to press" for passage of the
Jackson and Mills-Vanik bills
that would make U.S. trade
concessions to Russia condi-
tional on the removal of emi-
gration restrictions.
In New York, Jacob Stein,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of M a j o r
American Jewish Organiza-
tions, in a statement strongly
affirmed conference support
of the Jackson Amendment
and the Mills-Vanik bill.
Jewish Defense League
chapters in New York, Phila-
delphia, Los Angeles and
San Francisco staged sit-ins
at the American Red Cross
office in those cities to de-
mand that the International
Red Cross insist on conduct-
ing an inspection of prisons
in the Soviet Union where
Jews are incarcerated.
Four Jewish women staged
a rare public protest in down-
town Moscow Sunday and
were immediately arrested,
Jewish sources said.
The four women, wives of
Moscow Jewish engineers
who had been refused per-
mission to em i g r a t e to
Israel, demonstrated outside
the Soviet visa office, the
sources said. They carried
signs reading "Let My People
Go."
Minutes after the protest
began, KGB (Soviet secret
police) agents hustled the
women into the visa office
and arrested them. The wom-
en were taken away in un-
marked police cars, the
sources said.
The women are the wives
of Jewish activists arrested
briefly in Moscow June 17
because the Soviet govern-

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ment feared they were plan-
ning demonstrations during
Soviet Party Leader Leonid
I. Brezhnev's visit to the
U.S.
They were identified by
telephone from Moscow as
Nina Balfour, Valeria Kriz-
hak, Olga Rutman and Rima
Peskin.
Golda: Israel Is 'Neutral'
in U.S. Controversy
on Jackson Amendment
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Golda Meir reiterat-
ed Tuesday her government's
policy of strict neutrality in
the controversy between the
Nixon administration and
Congress over how to deal
with the issue of Jewish emi-
gration from the Soviet
Union.
Replying to questions in
the Knesset, Mrs. Meir said
that Israel valued the effort
of Sen. Henry M. Jackson but
"cannot and should not take
a stand when differences of
opinion flare between Con-
gress and the President of
the U.S. on how to deal with
the issue of Soviet Jewish
:migration."
She said that her her meet-
ing last March with admniis-
tration and congressional
leaders "whose efforts we
value, I stressed the serious-
ness of Soviet J e w r y's
plight." She said there has
been "a certain easing of the
situation as regards the di-
ploma tax" but "difficulties
attached to the emigration of
Jews from Soviet Union still
exists, to my sorrow."
American Betar Members
Under House Arrests
In Russia; Accuse FBI
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Five
American Jewish students
claim they were kept under
virtual house arrest for two
days during a visit to Russia
last week, accused the FBI
of trying to block their trip
to the USSR and said the
KGB (Soviet secret police)
"cooperated with the •BI."
The five students are mem-
bers of the militant Betar
youth group of the Zionist-
Revisionists movement and
are believed to be sympa-
thizers of the Jewish Defense
League.
Their trip to Russia and to
Israel was financed by the
United Zionists Revisionists,
which is ideologically linked
to Israel's Herut Party.
Gordon Soldar, 23, of New
York, leader of the group
said the FBI tried to per-
suade them not to go to Rus-
sia.
Soldar said that at the Mos-
cow airport they were sep-
arated from other passengers
while their luggage was
thoroughly inspected and
then taken to the airport
hotel where they were con-
fined to a single rooms "al-
most as prisoners."

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