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February 15, 1974 - Image 46

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1974-02-15

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Panov Told He Can't Leave' TSSR; 'Administrative Action' to Come

Kissinger claimed "suc- and the Rev. Gerald Strober,
LONDON (JTA) —Jewish silence" toward the fate of
cess"
on Jewish emigration consultant to the inter-relig-
sources in the Soviet Union the Panovs, principal dancers
from the Soviet Union in re- ious affairs department of
have reported that the Len- with the Kirov Ballet of Len-
sponse to questions at the the American Jewish Com-
ingrad ovir office has with- ingrad until the couple ap-
Yale-Harvard-Princeton Club mittee.
plied
for
visas
to
emigrate
drawn permission for Valery
here after he had addressed
In New York, a proclama-
Panov to leave the Soviet to Israel.
it briefly on world' affairs.
tion by M a y o r Abraham
In a letter to Columbia
Union.
Responding to a query on Beame, designated Feb. 9 as
The reason given was that Artists Management, Blum-
Soviet-American detente, Kis- "Soviet Jewish Prisoner of
berg
commended
its
decision
he deliberately refused to go
singer attacked without direct Conscience Day" in New York
without his wife, Galina to cancel an American tour
reference the pending Jack- City. At a luncheon, City
of
the
Kirov
Company.
But
Rogozina. Emigration of-
son Amendment.
Council members dined on a
his
organization
was
"puzzled
ficials further told the Jew-
He
also
indicated
general
Soviet Jewish prisoner's typi-
ish ballet star that admin- and disturbed" by Columbia's
satisfaction with Soviet pol- cal lunch of a cup of water,
announcement
that
it
will
istrative action would also
icy abroad. "Our concern an ounce of sardines and
be taken against him for his sponsor a tour of the Bolshoi
with detente has been direct- stale bread.
Dancers.
attitude. This action could
ed to moderate Soviet foreign SSSJ Launches "Operation
In an article in the New
include a sentence in a labor
policy behavior," he said,
sit
,`(4:):,

York
Times
Sunday,
the
camp.
"and that has been on the Write-In" for Soviet Jew
natsk,,
noted
critic
Clive
Barnes
sty
The Student Struggle
At the same time, Soviet
The haunted look on Valery Panov's self-portrait, in a whole substantially success-
said the fuel crisis is the of-
newspapers carried an ap- ficial reason for the cancel- photo obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, ful with occasional aberra- Soviet Jewry has launched
peal released by the official lation of the Kirov appear- reflects his plight. Subject to mounting harassment by the tions which is inevitable when "Operation Write-In" both to
Novosti Press Agency from ance here in May. But the authorities, the famed dancer has been denied permission nations have client states all Soviet Jewish scientists and
professionals, and to the chil-
over the world."
Panov's mother-in-law, Lar- real reason, in his opinion, to leave the USSR. with his wife, Galina.
issa Rogozina, to the Soviet is the Panovs. "Unless the
minister of cuture. In this Panovs are released, I doubt trying to hijack an airliner their contacts by "trying to
Mrs. Rogozina stated that whether we will see these and, therefre, intercession frighten us, accusing us of
Valery had a "wicked and (Bolshoi and Moiseyev) com- was impossible.
fictitious deeds connected
degrading influnence" on her panies," Barnes wrote.
The Student Struggle for with such activities as meet-
daughter, that he was keep-
"Every American company Soviet Jewry reported in ing with foreign correspond-
ing her from seeing Galina, is pondering the morality of New York that I. S. Ezhov, ents, and has now gone so
and that he had insulted her dancing in the Soviet Union, the lawyer for Aleksandr far as to make direct threats
on several occasions.
and I know of one major Feldman of Kiev, who put in against a foreign corres-
Mrs. Rogozina concluded American ballet company a strong appeal against Feld- pondent. We want the Am-
that she wanted Galina to re- that has told the State De- man's sentence, has been erican public to remember
this when they are told that
main in the Soviet Union be- partment that it is not will- forcibly retired.
The SSSJ reported that the the Soviet government is
cause she was in poor health ing to tour Russia until the
and needed the moral sup- Panovs are allowed to emi- Cincinnati Council on Soviet ready for contact and dia-
Jewry learned by phcne that logue with the West."
port of her daughter.
grate together.
Joseloff was also summoned
Bnai Brith has urged that
"This could destroy the Ezhov was retired after a
Soviet ballet companies be cultural exchange agreement six-hour hearing in Kiev. to the foreign ministry's
dren of the Jewish activists.
denied American tuors until between our countries. And Feldman's father and brother press section and warned he Basis Is Established
A kit containing informa-
the "cruel treatment" of the that destroyed, where is de- are now looking for another had engaged in "instigatory for Interfaith Task Force
BOSTON (JTA)—More than tion on almost 200 scientists
Panovs is ended. David M. tente? Big things often come lawyer. Feldman was sen- and provocative actions" and
Blumberg, Bnai Brith's pre- under small labels. Histori- tenced last Nov. 23 to 31/2 the U.S. Embassy was told 20 religious leaders met re- and professionals and over
sident, accused Soviet dance cally, one was Dreyfus. An- years in a labor camp on a the reporter might be ex- cently at the Paulist Center 45 children, as well as in-
pelled.
to lay groundwork for an in- structions on how to write to
groups of "indifference and other might be Panov," charges of hooliganism.
According to the National terfaith tack force on behalf them can be used as the
Recently Ezhov's appeal
Barnes concluded.
basis of "adopt-a-family" and
was made public in the Conference on Soviet Jewry, of Soviet Jewry.
55—MISCELLANEOUS
Brezhnev Says Jews
United States 'after it was applications may no longer
Leading the discussion on letter-writing projects.
Forbidden to Leave
The kit is available free
smuggled out of the USSR be processed at the central "Christian Views of Soviet
MOVING SALE
USSR 'Enemies of State'
in single copies from the Stu-
by New York City Council city ovir offices.
Jewry"
were
Sister
Ann
Gil-
Includes entire contents of
MONTREAL (JTA) — So-
Instead, district militia len, executive director of dent Struggle for Soviet
house, bedroom set, living viet Communist Party Secre- President Paul O'Dwyer and
Jewry, 200 W. 72nd St., suites
room, dining room furniture, tary Leonid I. Brezhnev told Manhattan Borough Presi- will process them. This the National Inter-Religious
makes it more difficult to Task Force on Soviet Jewry, 30-31, New York 10023.
dent Percy Sutton.
etc., Sunday only.
a group of Jewish demon-
Ezhov, in his brief, said check on the number of ap
23251 Kipling off 9 Mile Rd. strators at the Gander New- he "considered the verdict plicants and refusals.
foundland
airport
last
week-
Oak Park
as incorrect and subject to Case to Ask Kissinger
end that "as many Jews as being repealed."
for 'Full Airing' on
want to go to Israel may
Feldman, a 26-year-old
56—ANTIQUES
go" and that "those who are Jewish engineer and Soviet Trade Agreement
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
forbidden to leave the Soviet activist, may be the victim
Union are enemies of the of an attempted frameup, it The Senate Foreign Relations
state who want to give away was renorted by the Student Committee, at the request of
74th ANTIQUE
Sen. Clifford P. Case
state secrets."
(R.,N.J.) has asked Secre-
SHOW
The Soviet ambassador to Struggle.
According to the SSSJ, tary of State Henry A. Kiss-
Canada,
V.
Miroshnicenko,
Redford-Detroit
Feldman was handed a book
who was with Brezhnev, told in his jail cell and as he inger to provide "a full air-
February 22, 23, 24
the demonstrators, - in the opened it a knife fell out—an ing" of charges that "im-
Carpenters Hall
presence of reporters and TV effort on the part of Soviet portant parts" of the Soviet-
American trade agreement
22521 Grand River
cameramen, "You are all a
authorities to try to make
pack of fools and all misin- Feldman to appear as a were not transmitted to Con-
Period and country furni-
gress in accordance with
formed."
ture, rare wedgewoods,
The encounter occurred criminal and thereby give law.
fine jewelry. Indian arti-
Case told the Senate that
when Brezhnev and his en- them the basis to charge him
for criminal activity. the parts "have indeed en-
facts, paper weights dolls,
tourage landed at Gander en further
Feldman was originally tered into force and con-
art glass and much more.
route home to the Soviet
Union after an official visit sentenced for allegedly hit- gressional deliberation +m
Hours 12..00-10:00 p.m.
to Cuba. He was met at the ting a woman and injuring granting credits to the USSR
has been bypassed by an ex-
Sunday Closing 6:00 p.m.
airport by 10 Newfoundland her.
In Washington, Rep. Eliza- ecutive agreement that ex-
Jews who carried signs read-
beth Holtzman (D.NY) has tends credits at a preferred
Admission $1.25
ing "Let my people go."
Free Parking
The Canadian minister of sent letters to Soviet Am- rate to the USSR." A copy
transport, Don Jamieson, in- bassador Anatoly Dobrynin of Case's prepared remarks
President Nixon on be- was obtained by the Jewish
tervened on behalf of the de- and
half
of Leonid Zabelishen- Telegraphic Agency.
monstrators, and Brezhnev
The House in December,
87—PETS
came to the barrier to ad- sky, a Jew on trial for "para-
sitism" in the Soviet Union. adopted by a 4-1 ratio the
dress
them.
He
told
them
POODLE standard puppies, AKC,
shots, wormed, guaranteed. 474- that "There is no such ques- Rep. Holtzman stated that Mills-Vanik measure forbid-
7291.
tion as hundreds of thou- Zabelishensky had lost his ding credits or most favored
sands of Jews wanting to job after applying for exit nation tariffs to the Soviet
91—COUNTRY CLUB
leave the Soviet Union. visas to Israel for himself, Union until it relaxes its emi-
MEMBERSHIP FOR SALE
There are only 3,000 of them his wife and child, and that gration barriers.
The identical measure, the
waiting for permission to the charge of "parasitism'
leave," he said, adding, "But was made despite the fact Jackson Amendment, is back-
SHENANDOAH COUNTRY ,
we are bothered with all the that Zabelishensky's wife ed by 78 senators. Hearings
Dr. Gerson D. Cohen, chancellor of the Jewish Theo-
on it •are expected before the
Russian Jews who want to was working.
CLUB MEMBERSHIP
logical Seminary of America, left, presents a special award
Eleven
Soviet
Jews
have
Senate
Finance
Committee
as
come back from Israel."
to I. Murray Jacobs, center, president of the National Fed-
Full membership available from
The Jewish delegation al- issued a statement protest- part of the over-all Trade eration of Jewish Men's Clubs, in recognition of the federa-
ing the detention by the Reform Act late this month
private party. Regular so asked Brezhnev to inter-
tion's 45th anniversary. At the ceremony, which took place
KGB of Gordon Joseloff, a or early March.
$1,200.00 only $795.00 with cede on behalf of Sylva
in Hollywood!, Fla., during a meeting of the seminary's
No
date
has
been
fixed
for
United
Press
International
Zalmanson, sentenced to 10
dues paid thru February.
board of overseers, Jacobs gave Chancellor Cohen a check
years strict regime in the correspondent in Moscow, Kissinger's appearance be- for $10,000 for the leaders training fellowship program spon-
fore
the
Foreign
Relations
after
he
met
with
the
Jews
first Leningrad trial in 1970,
sored by the Conservative movement and financially sup-
CALL MR. LEVITT now seriously ill. Brezhnev to discuss the government re- Committee regarding Case's ported
by the 375-club federation. The LTF program among
charges
relavant
to
the
U.S.-
fusal
to
give
them
exit
visas,
responded by calling her an
Soviet agreement, signed Oct. high school students seeks to foster the development of
353-2100
enemy of the state who com- according to the Student 18, 1972 as a followup to the future rabbis, cantors and teachers. Shown at right is Abra-
mitted a criminal offense in Struggle.
The Jews said the Soviet summit 'meeting in Moscow ham A. Silver of Erie, Pa., national vice president and
chairman of the Federation's LTF committee.
Union
is trying to cut off all in May of that year.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46—Friday, Feb. 15, 1974

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I. Murray Jacobs Honored

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