Gromyko Warns Critics of Soviet Policy to Keep Their Noses Out of USSR 'Internal Affairs'

Gold said, however, that of •Pepsico Co. products and ployment opportunities for
factors in their reports of Jewry reported that visas
minority groups.
the dissident issue and emi- were also promised to Vladi- Kendall's lobbying against services.
Kendall was identified by
Gold told the JTA, how-
mir Mash, a well-known econ- the trade bill amendments
gration practices.
ever, that "very little pres- the Washington Post recently
was
brought
to
the
AJCom-
omist,
and
Boris
Orlov,
a
Lawmaker Says USSR
mittee's attention within the sure" had been brought to as the •author of a telegram
historian, both of Moscow.
Charges Full Exit Fee
past
two weeks by various bear on the AJC to withdraw sent to 64 presidents of major
Meanwhile,
more
than
80
for Infants, Children
"individuals"
and it was de- its honor to the Pepsico chief. American corporations urging
other
Soviet
Jews
have
pro-
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A
An AJC spokesman said them to rally in opposition to
cided
that
presentation
of
tested
to
the
Soviet
Commu-
California Republican claim-
that retraction of the award the Jackson/Mills-Vanik bills.
ed here that the Soviet Union nist Party Central Commit- the award to Kendall was no was "no reflection of Mr.
The AJCommittee has not
was charging the full 900 tee over the denial of visas to longer appropriate. Gold said Kendall's excellent record of named a substitute recipient
that
Kendall
concurred
in
them
and
others,
it
was
re-
ruble exit fee for infants and
leadership in civic efforts," for this year's civic leader-
that view.
small children of Jewish ported from Moscow.
The award, to have been particularly to expand em- ship award.
The Central Committee was
families leaving Israel.
challenged to state why it presented at a testimonial
Rep. Alphonzo Bell said at has not to date informed dinner here Oct. 30, was an-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
38 Friday, Sept. 28, 1973
a press conference that he more than 80 visa applicants nounced last August.
has sent documentary evi- of the fate of their applica-
At that time it was common
dence of that practice to tions.
knowledge that Pepsico had
President Nixon as proof
Signatories of the petition entered into a five-year trade
"that there has been no per- included the eminent scien- agreement with the Soviet
manent relaxation of Soviet tist Prof. Benjamin Levich, Union.
hostility to Jews" and that computer specialist Aleksan-
Gold said the AJCommit-
Best Wishes For A
"trade concessions are not der Lerner and Vladimir tee did not object to the deal
deserved" by the Soviet
because it regarded it as
Slepak.
Union.
Jewish sources in the Soviet part of U.S.-Soviet detente
Bell said Soviet authorities Union reported that Levich which it always favored.
treated infants and small chil- has been denied permission
Announcement of the deal
To All Our
dren as if they were travel- by Soviet authorities to at- last spring, under which a
ling alone. He exhibited tend a meeting Oct. 9 of the Pepsi Cola bottling plant will
copies of exit visas allegedly American Electro - Chemical be built •in the USSR led
Best wishes to all our
issued for Jewish children. Society in Boston.
m any American - Jewish
friends and patrons
NAACP Resolution
The society invited him to groups to call for a boycott
Supports Soviet Jews
address its conference and
for a very
NEW YORK ( JTA) — The to accept its 1973 Palladium
"Happy New Year"
National Association for the Medal.
Advancement of Colore d
.(In Boston, a spokesman
People voted to call upon for the society said that if
STEAK
Congress to deny favored na- Dr. Levich is not allowed to By SOLOMON GOLDMAN
HOUSE
tion status to the Soviet attend the meeting, the gath-
In "Crisis and' Decision"
U.S. Secretary of State Union in world trade rela- ering will conduct an in-ab-
26667 W. 8 Mile
Of the whole welter of an-
Henry A. Kissinger was re- tions until the USSR ceases sentia presentation of the
cient peoples we alone sur-
ported to have discussed the and desists from its ransom medal.)
question of Soviet Jews and demand practice.
Jewish sources in the Sov- vived.
We survived, I should like
dissidents when he met with
This position was formulat- iet Union also reported that to believe, because we were
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c
with Gromyko at dinner Mon- ed in a resolution passed by Prof. ,Levich has received a
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inveterate
optimists.
No
ob-
day night.
delegates to the NAACP's total of 17 invitations from
In Washington; the State 64th annual convention in In- foreign universities and insti- stacle stopped us, no crisis
Department announced that dianapolis July 2-6, 1973, and tutions of higher learning to dismayed us, no catastrophe
crushed us. We swallowed
protests were made there and was ratified by the board of come and lecture to them.
in Moscow over the detention directors at its quarterly
Meanwhile, he continues to the bitterness of life and pur-
of an American news photo- meeting this month.
be boycotted by Soviet scien- sued the sweet thereof.
Wishing Our Many Friends
We survived because of
grapher, Roger Leddington,
"We call upon our federal tific institutions.
Torah.
We
loved
life
and
our
and Customers A Very Happy
and the confiscation of film administration to use the AJCommittee Withdraws
sages knew that life needs
he took of a Jewish activist, good influences of the Ameri- Award to Pepsico Head
and Prosperous New Year!
Arkady Shpilberg, who was can government to gain relief
NEW YORK (JTA) — An direction, norms, discipline.
demonstrating outside Com- from this tyranny, to the end official of the American Jew- We placed ourselves under
munist Party headquarters that these Russian Jews may ish Committee said that it the yoke of the Torah and
to protest the denial of an enjoy the freedoms and pri- withdrew its civic leadership rejoiced that we had Mitzvot.
We survived because ours
exit - visa.
vileges to which all human award to Donald M. Kendall,
was a genuine democracy.
The State Department in- beings are entitled," the reso- chairman of Pepsico Inc. be- No caste system was per-
cause of his active opposition
dicated that the protests were lution stated, in part.
to the Jackson/Mills-Vanik mitted to develop, no auto-
not in written form but were Five Leading Jewish
legislation linking trade con- crat went unchallenged.
delivered orally at a relative- Activists Given OK to Go
We survived,' believe,
ly low diplomatic level.
NEW YORK OTA) —Five cessions to the Soviet Union above all, because of the
with
free
emigration
for
Jews
A report from - Moscow leading Jewish activists in
prophetic voices that broke
11,1 11 ► )
Tuesday quoted the visiting the Soviet. Union have been and others.
out
in Israel from time to
Bertram Gold, executive
head of the U.S. information given permission to leave, it
time.
We
were
blessed
with
140f
vice president of the AJCom-
Agency, James Keogh, as was learned here.
men that never made peace
J (1/
JtiJ 1, J
According to the National mittee, told the Jewish Tele- with the foibles of the people
saying that Soviet officials
graphic
Agency
that
Kendall
lip) If
were dissatisfied with Ameri- Conference on Soviet Jewry,
or the whims of the rulers.
.1i.
can news reporting on Soviet visas have been granted to had been designated as the We were compelled to listen
internal matters. Keogh said Boris Embinder and Vladimir recipient of the 1973 award to denunciations that "cried
that Russian authorities ac- Roginsky, of Moscow, and to as long as two years ago, aloud like a trumpet." We
cused American newsmen of Igor Goldfarb, of Kiev. The before trade concessions to could not allow ourselves to
Happy & Healthy New Year
over emphasizing negative Student Struggle for Soviet Russia became an issue.
sink into the sweet lassitude
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UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
—Soviet Foreign Minister An-
drei 'Gromyko warned critics
of Soviet policies toward dis-
sidents and Jews Tuesday to
keep their hands off Russia's
internal affairs.
In a particularly sharp
speech to the UN General
Assembly he warned that war
could break out in the Middle
East "at any moment" and
reiterated his country's sup-
port for the Arab states,
which "only want to retrieve
what was seized from them
by force."
Gromyko devoted a large
portion of his speech to what
- he spoke of as "noisy propa-
ganda campaigns" in the
West and "blackmail," a
reference to efforts in the
U.S. Congress to withhold
most - favored - nation trade
status from the Soviet Union
unless it eases restrictions on
dissidents and Jews and oth-
ers wishing to emigrate.
Israel Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah said that Gromyko's
remarks to the General. As-
sembly on the need for peace,
d e t e n t e and coexistence
"have a hollow ring" in light
of Soviet policies in the Mid-
dle East and its treatment of
Jews seeking to emigrate.

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JCCouncil Asks Art Institute to Convey
Concern for Soviet Jews During Display

The Jewish Community
Council has called upon the
help of the Detroit Institute
of Arts in the cause of Soviet
Jewry.
Taking note that an out-
standing collection of paint-
ings from Leningrad's fa-
mous Hermitage Museum
was on display at the
Art Institute this week, Coun-
cil asked for the Institute's
assistance in transmitting
Jewish concerns about the
plight of Soviet Jews.
In a letter to Institute Di-
rector Willis F. Woods, Dan-
iel .Berk, chairman of the
Community Council's Soviet
Jewry committee, stated that
"the display . . . is a wel-
come event in the cultural
exchange between the United
States and the USSR.
Berk added, however, that
Jews in the Soviet Union con-
tinue to suffer from govern-
ment harassment "because
they are seeking to leave the
USSR as a consequence of

"It is not our intent to in-
the government's adamant
refusal to 'allow them to live terfere with the public's right
to view the exhibit; however,
as Jews . . .."
Berk pointed to the case of we hope that in your contacts
Dr. Leonid Tarassuk, former with Soviet officials, you will
curator of European-Ameri: transmit our concerns with
can arms and armor at the respect to Soviet Jewry.

Hermitage Museum. Follow-
ing his request for an exit
visa to emigrate to Israel,
Tarassuk was dismissed from
his position and underwent
months of continuous harass-
ment until his visa finally
was approved. "The same
thing has happened to thou-
sands of other Jews who
have indicated a desire to
emigrate," said Berk.

"While continuation of the
contacts, of which the current
art exhibition is an example,
is important, it also is im-
portant that Soviet officials
know that we are aware and
vitally concerned about the
plight of Jews and others in
the Soviet Union who speak
out on behalf of freedom,"
Berk said.

"We hope, also, that you
will join with us in making
clear that if cultural, eco-
nomic and technical ex-
changes are to continue, the
Soviet government cannot
continue to hold large num-
bers of people in what the
noted author Alexander Sol-
zhenitsyn has described as
virtual serfdom," the letter
concluded.
(As the 250 guests arrived
for a private dinner preview
of the exhibit Monday night,
a helicopter circled over-
head, pulling a sign, "Dob-
rynin, Free Soviet Jews."
rynin, Free Soviet Jews."
The Detroit Action Commit-
tee on Soviet Jewry arranged
the protest.)

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