Four Latin American Leaders Witness
Anti-Jewish Actions in Soviet Union
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Four Latin American leaders
who recently returned from a
visit to the Soviet Union,
have appealed to Communist
Party Secretary Leonid I.
Brezhnev to end widespread
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tion against Russian Jews.
permit all those who wish to
leave to do so and to hal'
the dissemination of anti-
Semitic propaganda in the
USSR.
An open memorandum ad
dressed to Brezhnev was re-
leased at a Latin American
forum on the condition of
Soviet Jewry last week.
It was attended by delega-
tions from 16 countries in
South and Central America
and the West Indies.
The memorandum was
read by Alfredo Concepcion,
a former Argentina minister
of commerce and industry
The forum received a mes-
sage of support from Argen-
tina's vice president. Mrs.
Maris Estela Martinez de
Peron. Dr. Ricardo Balbin
leader of the Union Civica
Radical, the strongest oppo-
sition party, addressed the
gathering on the subject of
human rights and political
freedom.
Concepcion and three other
Latin American leader s
toured the Soviet Union to
investigate the condition of
Russian Jews in the after-
math of the latest Middle
East war. Some of their find-
ings were described in the
memorandum.
The other members of the
delegation were identified as
The Rev. Father Benjamin
Nunez, former Costa Rican
ambassador to the United
Nations, to Romania and to
Israel and the recipient of
the 1970 Latin American Jew-
ish Congress Prize for Hu-
man Rights; Prof. Modesto
Seara Vazquez, professor of
law and political science at
the National University of
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Mexico; and Prof. Ohal of
Colombia.
The four visited Moscow,
Leningrad, Tblisi and Kiev
where, according to their re-
port, they contacted many
Jews including members of
the Soviet Academy of Sci-
ence who, they said, were
being harassed for having
applied for exit visas.
They stated in their mem-
orandum to Brezhnev: "It is
obvious that the Soviet gov-
ernment is giving its many
nationalties the opportunity
to express and cultivate their
respective c u l t u r e s, lan-
guages and schools but it is
a cause for consternation to
us to find out that the Jew-
ish nationality in the USSR
is being discriminated
against. It is not able to ex-
press its-elf fully. We were
given even more cause for
serious concern to find that
abundant anti-Semitic litera-
ture of undeniable official
A wounded Israeli soldier discusses plans for resuming
origin was easily obtainable his studies at Bar-Ilan University with Prof. Ernest Kra ► sz,
the acting dean of the university's social science faculty.
in public places."
The visitors said they were Bar-Ilan, Israel's only religious-oriented university, is pres-
witness to police repression ently implementing a special study program for front-line
on Oct. 18-19 in front of the and hospitalized soldiers through written, taped and video-
Moscow synagogue against taped lessons.
Jewish youths who tried to
express their religious feel-
ings• peacefully. They
charged "widespread dis-
crimination against Jews
who request emigration visas
. . . They and their families
KFAR BLUM — The men the Golan Heights. There
are objects of reprisals, they
were reports of Syrian heli-
lose their jobs .or are im- of Tank Unit A sent the fol-
copters landing in- the area
lowing
"love
letter"
to
the
prisoned."
staff of the guest house at on sabotage and murder mis-
The forum resolved to ap- Kibutz Mar Blum in the sions, and some shell frag-
peal for support to United shadow of the Golan Heights: ments broke through win-
Nations Secretary General
"Yesterday, sitting in the dows and 'roof tiles.
Kurt Waldheim, the UN
Nevertheless, a work rou-
Human Rights Commission room allotted us, we dis-
and governments, parlia- cussed the many differences tine soon was established
ments and other representa- between us and the Syrian whereby field and factory
tive institutions all over the soldiers against whom we work could be resumed. An
were fighting — those sold- emergency secretariat was
world.
iers whom we pushed back set up, along with a "war
The countries represented from our borders deep into cabinet" to handle all event-
at the forum were Argentina, Syria on the central front.
Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, And we suddenly realized ualities.
"In retrospect," wrote a
Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, that besides the spirit and
Venezuela, Panama, El Sal- morale of our men, we have member of Mar Blum, "I
vador, Costa Rica, Nicara- something else that the Syr- can say with considerable sat-
gua, Guatemala. Mexico and , ians don't have. We have isfaction that the entire pop-
ulation stood up well under
the Dominican Republic.
I you. And it may very well be, all pressures. The American
Meanwhile, Jewish sources that it is the people behind class was well-disciplined
in the Soviet Union said that us, people like you, that and mature in every respect.
there was no truth to reports bring us, in some indefinable Their reaction to parental re-
that Galina Panov has re- way, the balance of power on quests to 'come home' were
ceived an exit visa so that the battlefield."
knowledgeable smiles."
she can accompany her hus-
It was a thank you for a
A grievous loss to the ki-
band Valery to Israel.
day's rent provided by Kfar
The sources said the couple Blum as part of its special butz was the death of Mull
Bashan, chief engineer, on
is still in Russia.
soldiers' service. The guest
Valery Panov was granted house club rooms were kept whom all plans for electronic
an exit visa earlier this open from noon to midnight, development on the kibutz
month and was given 10 days with volunteers manning the hinged. He left a widow and
to get out of the country. But "oasis," serving snacks and three small children. Three
he has refused to leave with- drinks, providing entertain- others were wounded and two
out his wife, who up to now ment for the war-weary Is- missing in action.
Now, the kibutz is in the
has been denied a visa, the raeli soldiers.
process of reorganization to
sources said.
This was only one aspect cope with the possibility of a
An appeal by Aleksandr
of the response to war made long emergency situation.
Feldman of Kiev to have his
by the members of Kfar Some volunteers had to he
3 1/2 year sentence in a forced
Blum, 100 of whose young turned away because neither
labor camp revoked was
men were a l r e a d y at the housing nor technical man-
turned down by the Kiev City
front within two days of the power was available to ab-
Court.
first callup.
sorb them.
All of kibutz life was geared
A qualified electrical and
Brezhnev Claims
to the emergency. Children
electronic engineer also must
were the first to be placed in he found—or the kibutz may
Keeping Pledges
air-raid shelters, and since have to revise its line of pro-
the younger men were called duction.
on Exit of Jews
LONDON — A report from up, essential services had to
New buildings must be
Moscow claims that Commu- be tackled by older men, by
erected and the factory reor-
nist Party Chairman Leonid women, teen-agers, volun-
ganized. . . And more under-
I. Brezhnev said the pledge teers and ulpan students.
ground shelters built.
The
kibutz's
one
truck,
sev-
to the U. S. to permit the
Friends of Kfar Blum in
emigration of Jews has been eral tractors and other equip-
ment were mobilized by the the U.S. also have launched
fulfilled.
The report states that in army; thus, while cows were a "Kfar B 1 u m Children's
1973, 34,750 Jews left Russia, being milked, the lack of Fdnd" to purchase toys and
compared with 31,500 in 1972. transport meant that the books for the kibutz children,
who have been living in un-
The largest number in any milk had to be spilled.
The real physical danger derground shelters. Checks
month was in October when
4,200 Jews came to Israel was in the first two days can be sent to Mrs. Fay C.
from the USSR in spite of when the Syrians advanced Vedro, 77 Fulton St., New
their artillery to the edge of York 10038, Apt. 19D.
the raging war.
flow One Kibutz
Coped With War
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