Congress-Administration Battle
Continues Over MFN for Russia
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
new stage in the struggle be-
tween the White House and
Congress over trade with the
Soviet Union appeared about
to unfold in the wake of the
House ways and means com-
mittee's adoption last week
of the Mills-Vanik amend-
ment t,1 deny most favored
nation status to the USSR
until it eases its emigration
policies for Jews and others.
In response to what is con-
ceded here to be a major
setback to his policy of doing
business with the USSR — a
cornerstone of detente—Pres-
' pt Nixon gave assurances
"Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko at a
White House meeting last
Friday that his administra-
tion would try hard to get
most favored nation status
for the Soviet Union. Nixon's
pledge to Gromyko was an-
nounced by White House
spokesman Gerald Warren.
Warren refused to say
Like Kissinger and Nixon, he
promised to assist in over-
coming opposition to favored
nation status for Russia.
whether Nixon had asked
Gromyko to speed up per-
mission for Jews to emigrate
from the USSR in larger
Expressing pleasure that
numbers. He would say only
that the administration pre- the House ways and means
committee decided to incorp-
fers "quiet diplomacy."
Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger warned at a
press conference in New York
on Sept. 26 that as a result
of the House committee's ac-
tion "the most serious ques-
tions" would have to be
raised, not only by the Rus-
sians but by. other countries
about the ability of the U.S.
to fulfill its promises.
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Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz, who was in
Mostow this week to confer
with Leonid Brezhnev on
trade with the USSR, also
was critical of the Jackson/
Vanik-Mills amendments. He
credits, c r edit guarantees
rejected claims that efforts
in behalf of Russian Jewry
and USSR dissidents had a
bearing on trade agreements.
Congresswoman Griffiths Intercedes
With Brezhnev for Sylva Zalmanson
orate in the Trade Reform
Act a provision making most-
favored-nation treatment con-
ditional on the recipient
country permitting free emi-
gration, Senator Henry M.
Jackson, sponsor of the
similar amendment in the
Senate, stated:
"1 am confident that the
full House, in voting on the
Trade Reform Act, will make
credits, c r edit guarantees
and investment guarantees
conditional on free emigra-
tion just as the ways and
means committee has made
MFN conditional on free emi-
gration. I understand that
this humanitarian restriction
on foreign credits, which is
a vital part of the Jackson
Amendment, was not in-
cluded in the bill as a result
of a jurisdictional question.
The full House will face no
such jurisdictional question;
and I am certain it will move
to include the full Jackson
Amendment in the Trade Bill
by adding the credit restric-
tions to those on MFN."
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siderations and long-term sta-
Friday, October 5, 1973-5
bility of detente," the Aca-
demic Committee on Soviet
THE BEST FOR LESS!
Jewry disclosed.
The nine signers are: Zbig-
niew Brezinski and Sevryn
Bialer, Columbia; Frederick
Barghoorn, Victor Ehrlich
LONG, SHORT, PATIO
and Leon Lipson, of Yale;
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John Armstrong, University
of Wisconsin; and Robert
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man Leonid Brezhnev in headquarters in Moscow
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Meanwhile, nine American
woman Martha Griffiths this an exit visa. He carried a
slacks without proper tail-
scholars
on
the
Soviet
Union
week interceded in behalf of sign reading "Let me go to
oring becomes an ordinary
have
sent
a
telegram
to
Rep.
Sylva Zalmanson who is ill in my family in Israel."
garment. At Shifman's our
Wilbur Mills (D.Ark.) urging
a labor camp and who has
Shpilberg's family received
old world tailors take pride
adoption
of
the
Mills-Vanik
been denied a visa to go to exit visas two months ago
in creating for you the look
Amendment
"as
a
practical
Israel. Rep. Griffiths wrote: and have since gone to Is-
of custom made clothing.
measure
to
safeguard
United
Leonid Brezhnev
rael. Grigorenko, who is not
Chairman, Communist Party Jewish, was ordered kept in
The Kremlin
a psychiatric hospital despite Did Kissinger
Moscow, RSFSF, USSR
the opinion of medical ex-
Dear Chairman Brezhnev:
perts that he did not require Offer ME Plan ()
The case of a young Jewish "compulsory treatment."
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woman named Sylva Zalman-
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According to the Times, the
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son has come to my attention Representatives Launch
six points are: Israeli with-
through the women's divi- `Congregational Vigil'
LIVONIA MALL
drawal from the Suez Canal,
sion of the American Jewish
BRIGHTON
MALL
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A returning both banks to
Congress. Sylva Zalmanson
"Congressional
vigil"
of
one-
and
other
locations
Egypt;
creation
of
an
Egyp-
was born in 1944. She gradu-
ated from Riga Polytechnic minute speeches every day tian-Israeli condominium to
Institute in 1968, with a de- began in the House of Repre- control Sharm el-Sheikh; a
gree in mechanical engineer- sentatives on behalf of vic- similar arrangement in other
ing. Shortly, thereafter, she tims of restrictive Soviet parts of Sinai depending on
was imprisoned with her emigration practices. The the extent of Israeli with-
husband, Eduard Kuznetzov, vigil, its sponsoring Con- drawal; Jerusalem to remain
for attempting to leave the gressmen announced, will part of Israel but with con-
country for Israel. Sylva Zal- continue until the House trol of Christian and Moslem
manson was sentenced to ten adopts the Mills-Vanik legis- holy places vested in the Vat-
Shifman's and most
years at hard labor at Potma lation. Rep. Hugh Carey ican and Jordan respectively;
return
of
the
West
Bank
to
credit
cards honored
(D.,
N.Y.)
began
the
series
prison camp. Her husband
received the death penalty. with a demand that the So- Jordan with Israeli settle-
The death sentence of her viet authorities free Sylva ments allowed to remain;
husband later was commuted Zalmanson who is serving a and partial Israeli withdrawal
from the Golan Heights.
to 15 years in a labor camp. 10-year sentence.
It is reported now that
Sylva is in rapidly deteriorat-
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build bridges of understand-
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Shpilberg Arrested
by Soviet Officials
VIENNA (JTA) — Soviet
authorities arrested Arkady
A. Shpilberg, a 35-year-old
Jew from Riga and ordered
the continued detention in a
psychiatric hospital of former
Gen. Pyotr G. Grigorenko,
66, a leader of the civil rights
movement in the USSR.
Shpilberg, who was a de-
fendant in the Riga 1971 trial,
was released from a labor
camp last month after com-
pleting a three-year strict re-
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