THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 13, 1973-13
Israel Immigration Down 12 Per Cent
JERUSALEM (JTA — Irn- by settlers from Western
migration to Israel was down countries who have not de-
12 per cent during the first cided definitely about stay-
half of this year compared to ing.
the same period last year i
Settlers from the Soviet
according to figures pub- Union become full immi-
lished by the Central Bureau grants on their arrival. In
of Statistics.
the latter category there
The period of January- were 14,000 between Janu-
June 1973 saw the arrival of ary-June compared to 15,000
19,600 immigrants and 4,800 in the same period last year.
"potential" immigrants.
"Potential" immigrants is
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Kosygin Is Disdainful of Returning Emigrants
due to f al s e propaganda
(from Israel). - he said.
Kosygin claimed that
"many former Soviet citi-
zens want to leave Israel and
return to the Soviet Union."
Commenting on the squalid
A petition for permission conditions in which the would- ,
to return on behalf of 60 be returnees are living here,
such Jews living in a Vienna he said that "some Russion
slum was conveyed to the Jews who emigrated live in
Soviet leader by Austrian similar bad conditions in
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky Israel."
The Jews who petitioned
during their four days of
talks here.
Kosygin have also petitioned
VIENNA (JTA) — Soviet
Premier Alexei N. Kosygin
indicated that he has little
sympathy for Russian Jews
who emigrated to Israel and
now want to return to the
USSR.
Kosygin said at a news con- United Nations Secretary
ference that the Jewish emi- General Kurt Waldheim and
grants have only themselves a few months ago sent a plea
to Soviet Communist Party
to blame if things go wrong
Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev.
and Soviet authorities refuse
to pemit therm to return be- About 40 Jews who left Is-
cause they have become Is- rael reportedly have been al-
raeli citizens. lowed to return to the Soviet
"I am familiar with this Union so far this year.
Vienna is the principal way
case," he told reports. "But
we are not to blame that they station for Jews leaving the
are in Vienna. We have not Soviet Union for Israel.
The Jewish Agency main-
ordered anybody out of the
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Castle, 20 miles south of Vi-
enna, where the emigrants
are temporarily quartered
and processed before being
put aboard planes for Israel.
About 2,500 Jews passed
through Vienna each month
during the first four months
ow
of this year. Their number
dropped to 1,500 in May and
declined further during the
first two weeks of June.
However, the number of
Soviet Jewish emigrants has
dropped slightly compared
with the previous year's cor-
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year's figure at this time
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Moscow were reported as
disclosing that 2,400 emi-
grated in June.
The American sources said
they did not yet obtain a
figure for June but by ac-
cepting the Moscow statis-
tics their total would be
14,830.
In the first six months of
1972, the Americans said,
emigrants totaled
15,500
while in the entire year the
emigration was 31,500.
Meanwhile, the number of
House members now co-spon-
soring the Mills/Vanik Bill
has risen to 285. (Senate
supporters for the companion
Jackson Amendment number
77).
Among the new co-spon-
sors were Donald Brotzman
(R., Colo.) and John Duncan
(R., Tenn.). Both Congress-
men came on after the
Brezhnev visit and are mem-
bers of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
Of the 25 committee mem-
bers, 18 are supporters of
the Mills/Vanik Bill. Work
on the trade legislation has
yet to be completed.
In Vienna, Dmitri M.
Segal, a Soviet Jewish
scholar who fought a long
battle with Russian authori-
ties for permission to emi-
grate, has arrived here on
his way to Israel.
Jewish sources said that
the 36-year-old philologist
a n d anthropologist h a d
reached Vienna by air from
Moscow with his wife
Yelena, 29, and his mother.
Segal told reporters in
Moscow that he had been or-
dered to report to security
police headquarters and that
he feared that he might be
detained.
The family's trouble in
getting a Soviet exit permit
apparently stemmed from
the refusal of Mrs. Segal's
father to permit her to leave.
The Segals were driven by
officials of the Jewish
Agency to a transit camp at
Schonau near Vienna, where
the agency shelters Russian
Jews who pass through Aus-
tria to Israel.
In Rehovot Prof. Alexan-
der Lerner, the Soviet cyber-
netics specialist who is
awaiting permission to emi-
grate with his family to Is-
rael, has to some extent al-
ready "arrived" at the
Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence, where a number of his
paintings have been received
and humg for display.
The oils, which portray
scenes in an daround Mos-
cow, were sent by Lerner to
a colleague whom he has
never met — Prof. Chaim L.
Pekeris, head of the Insti-
tute's applied mathematics
department; the paintings
now line the walls of the
department's foyer.
In October 1971, after ap-
plying for an exit visa to
Israel, Prof. Lerner was
fired from his job at the
Department of Large-scale
Systems in the Institute of
Control Sciences and from
his chair at the Scientific
and Technical University of
Moscow; his son also lost
his job and his daughter was
barred from studying mathe-
matics at the University of
Moscow.
Denied access to his own
office, Prof. Lerner began
to conduct weekly seminars
for his students and asso-
ciates in his Moscow flat. In
January 1972, he, his son
and daughter were offered
positions as staff members
,
in the applied mathematics
department of the Weizmann
Institute.
Later that year,
Prof.
Pekeris cabled Lerner that
he would receive a weekly
salary for his seminars and
for preparing reviews and
syntheses of papers on cy-
bernetics published in Soviet
journals.
Meanwhile, London reports
that a Soviet Supreme Court
has reduced the sentence of
Isaac Shkolnik from 10 to
seven years, Jewish sources
in the Soviet Union reported.
The 37-year-old Jewish
mechanic from Vinnitsa,
Ukraine, w a s sentenced
April 11 after a closed trial
found him guilty of spying
for Israel and anti-Soviet
propaganda.
No proof was presented at
the trial that he was ever in
possession of secret informa-
tion he allegedly passed to
Israel. Jewish sources in the
Soviet Union reported that
Yuri Sayasov, a prominent
scientist, has received an
exit vist and will leave for
Israel shortly. The sources
said that three other Jewish
activists were denied visas.
Bundesrat OKs Hike
in War Victim Pay
BONN (JTA) — The Bun-
desrat (upper -house) ap-
proved a government bill for
11.4 per cent increases in
the pensions of war victims
which will benefit many Is-
raelis.
DM 773,000,000 will be
added to the 1974 budget
bringing total disbursements
for war victims to DM
10,000,000,000 annually.
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