Russian Trade Official Goes 2 Hunger Strikers Yield to Appeal After U. S. Business on Tour; to Save Their Strength; Asian Studies Jewish Protests Await Party Experts Rally to Vitali Rubin's Behalf By JOSEPH POLAKOFF JTA Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Soviet trade official said here Tuesday that the USSR will carry out its contracts with American companies whether or not the Jackson Amendment is adopted but warned that the 78 senators who sponsor that measure were forcing the Soviet Union to "take a decision lo reorient our (trade) interests to western Europe" instead of the U. S. Nikolay S. Patolichev, the Soviet foreign trade minis- ter, speaking to reporters here added, "It is for you to judge if this corresponds to the interests of the American people." He said that the credit facilities for the Soviet Union which would be barred by the Jackson Amendment unless there is a relaxation of Soviet emigration policies — were an integral part of doing business in the world. Patolichev appeared at a press conference held under the auspices of the U. S.- USSR Trade and Economic Council, established last year after the Brezhnev-Nixon summit meeting in Washing- ton. He disclosed that the Soviet Union presently holds 103 contracts with American firms worth $360,000,000 and indicated that his trade dele- gation was going after more during its current U. S. tour. (As The Jewish News went to press Thursday a luncheon in Patolichev's honor at the Detroit Club was to be picket- ed in a demonstration coor- dinated by the Jewish Com- munity Council with the co- operation of the Detroit Ac- tion Committee for Soviet Jewry. Officers of the Jew- ish Community Council were to lead the demonstration.) The group of 26 high-rank- ing Soviet trade officials was hosted by President Nixon at a White House dinner Wednesday night and break- fasted Thursday with mem- bers of the Senate Finance Committee before embarking on an 11-city U. S. tour for meetings with American businessmen. The Senate Fi- nance Committee will begin hearings Monday on the trade reform bill that em- bodies the Jackson Amend- ment. Donald M. Kendall, chair- man of the Pepsico Corp., which has contracts with the USSR for its soft drink, Pepsi Cola and Russian vodka, remarked at the press conference, "Unfortunately the U. S. Senate does not de- cide if we give credit to the Soviet Union." He did not make it clear whether he was referring to private Ameri- can companies or the U. S. government. Patolichev remarked that the senators who support the Jackson Amendment were thinking in ways typical of the past. The Madison Hotel where the press conference was picketed by members of the 54 Friday, March 1, 1974 — Washington Jewish Commu- nity Council, who carried signs reading, "East-West Trade Yes, Blackmail of So- viet Jews No." Asked by the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency how he re- conciled the protests with statements by the U. S.- USSR Council referring to _a "climate of mutual trust and understanding," the Soviet trade official replied by say- ing that he had many friends of Jewish • origin. The Nixon administration has scheduled five cabinet members and two White House economic experts to testify on the Trade Reform Att and against the inclusion in it of the Jackson Amend- ment at the hearings by the Senate Finance Committee. A similar array testified for the administration at the hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee but the representatives, by a 4-1 margin, approved legis- lation identical to the Jack- son Amendment proposed by Reps. Wilbur Mills (D. Ark.) and Charles A. Vanik (D. Ohio). This is pat of the legislation that is to be aired in the Senate. Lady Davis Awards Given Hebrew U. and Technion Scholars JERUSALEM — The first awards from the Lady Davis Fello‘Vship Trust, which, at $5.000,000, is the largest scholarship' fund in Israel, have been presented to stu- dents and scholars hailing from far-flung areas from New York to Ontario. in diverse fields ranging from philosophy to chemistry. The awards are given for studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion- Israel Institute of Tech- nology, as well as to grad- uates of these institutions studying abroad. The Lady Davis Fellow- ships seek to make the cul- tural heritage of ancient and modern- Israel, its achieve- ments in development, state- building, scholarship, science and education widely avail- able and known to people from both technologically ad- vanced and evolving so- .cieties. Jerusalem Green Belt Progress Reported JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jewish National Fund has reported good progress in its tree-planting projects around Jerusalem which are planned eventually to provide the capital with a 16,000-dunam (4,000 acres) belt of woods and parklands. The project is seen as an extension of t h e original "Jerusalem Forest" which was begun west of the city after the state was estab- lished. Now, JNF is concentrating on former Jordanian areas north, east and south of Jerusalem. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Treasury Sec- retary George P. Schultz, William D. Eberle, special White House representative for trade negotiations, and Peter Flanigan, executive director of the White House Council on International Eco- nomic Policy, will be the top administration witnesses at the hearings Monday and Tuesday. Sen. Russell B. Long (D. La.), the Finance Committee chairman, will preside. On the following day, three additional cabinet members will testify. They are Agri- culture Secretary Earl Butz, Labor Secretary Peter Bren- nan and Commerce Secretary Frederick Dent. The major difference in the administration's lineup at the Senate hearings is that William P. Rogers, who was then secretary of state, led off the testimony on the legislation. Now it will be Kissinger. Seventy-eight senators, al- most four-fifths of the mem- bers of that body, have spon- sored the Jackson Amend- ment, but the administration harbors hopes of killing the amendment or watering it down when the trade bill as a whole goes into a Senate- House conference for ironing out- of differences that in- evitably occur in measures of this sort. Boris Ainbinder, a former Soviet Jewish activist, ap- pealed to a group of senators on behalf of Moscow Jewish friends now conducting a hunger strike over refusal 'of Soviet authorities to grant them exit visas. Ainbinder told the senators that during recent months conditions for Soviet Jews had worsened and that Dayid Azbel, Vitaly Rubin and Vladimir Galatsky had re- sorted to the hunger strike to protest their situation. Ainbinder also said that all of the telephones of leading MOscow Jewish activists, in- cluding that of the hunger strikers, had been discon- nected. Sen. Vance Hartke (D. Ind.) was host for the in- formal meeting of nine sena- tors, who questioned Ain- binder about the effect on the situation of Soviet Jews of the Jackson Amendment. He said his friends in the Soviet Union believe adopt- tion of the amendment will aid the cause of free emi- gration. Ainbinder has been touring this country under auspices of the National Con- ference on Soviet Jewry. The Conference and the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry jointly released the tevt of an appeal from the hunger strikers, "An Open Letter to the People of the United States," which said the Jackson Amendment made "certain aspects of Soviet-American relations de- pendent on free emigration from the USSR and that means dependent on moral- ity, international law and human rights." NEW YORK (JTA)—Vitali Rubin and Vladimir Glatsky ended their 11-day hunger strike Tuesday night, but David Azbel and Ida Nudel continued their action, it was reported by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Rubin and Galatsky de- cided to end' their strike fol- lowing an appeal Monday by all the senior professors at Israeli universities and tech- nical schools which urged the hunger strikers, for the sake of their health, to end their action. According to the SSSJ and the NCSJ, the two activists stated that they had made their views known-throughout the world by conducting their action,- which began Feb. 15 in Azbel's Moscow apartment. Miss Nudel be- gan her hunger strike in her own apartment six days ago. Azbel reportedly responded to the appeal by the Israelis by saying that he felt he must continue the strike ac-. tion despite the fact that he is extremely weak and can hardly stand up. The four have been striking in protest against the refusal- of Soviet authorities to give them exit visas. Their desperation h a s drawn unprecedented sym- pathy from the American academic community. At the, University of M i c h i g a n, where the plight of sinologist Rubin has drawn particular attention, 20 of 23 specialists in Chinese studies have sent letters on his behalf to Mich- igan's 'congressmen and to Soviet leaders Anatoly Dob- rynin, Yakov Malik and An- drei .Gromyko. A communitywide petition appeal also was mounted on the Ann Arbor campus. Ef- forts here have been led by Prof. Rhoads Murphey and Frank Shulman. Rubin has been invited by Hebrew University to serve as-corresponding scholar in the department of East Asian studies. A specialist in Chou Dy- nasty philosophy he. worked as a researcher at the In- stitute of Oriental Studies at the USSR Academy of Sci- ences in Moscow. He was faced to resign following his application to immigrate to Israel in early 1972. Over 1,300' Asian scholars throughout the world have signed a petition asking the Soviet Academy of Sciences to allow Rubin to resume his career. Ida Nudel, an an econo- mist who has been the target of KGB harassment for sev- eral months, applied for a visa to Israel 2 1/2 years ago and has been threatened with imprisonment for alleged al- coholism and p/rostitution. Some 150 /students and faculty members at Prince- ton University staged a sym- pathy hunger strike in soli- darity with them. At the same time, a group of some 200 students and faculty members at Colum- bia University held a peace- ful rally on the college cam- pus backing university ad- ministration's efforts to con- vince the USSR to permit Rubin to come to Columbia to lecture. On Tuesday, a group of about 30 young Soviet Jewish activists began a hunger strike in front of the Soviet Mission to the United ,Na- tions to express sympathy with the hunger strikers in Moscow. The group was led by Alexi 'Pummerman, 24, a former MoScow Jewish activist who himself had been arrested several times in the USSR for his dissident activities. VITALI RUBIN Tummerman, who recently emigrated to Israel and is in New York for a visit, was a friend of the three Moscow hunger strikers. Meanwhile, an appeal to the women of the world from Rakhil- Azbel, Natalia Galat- sky and Inessa Akserlord- Rubin to "help us in the struggle for our rights" was released by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The three -wives said fur- ther: "Our husbands have been practically deprived of the possibility to work and that means of the possibility to provide for our families. The exhausting struggle for their human rights deprives them of their strength and their health. We have al- ready seen that the Soviet authorities have no leniency either for the age or for the state of health Of those Jews who have applied for emi- gration from our country." Eight American artists cabled Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, with a copy to the Soviet Ambassador in Wash- ington, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, supporting Galatsky's plea for an exit visa. The cable was signed by Red Grooms, John Koch, Alexander Dobkin, Philip Pearlstein, Chaim Gross, Jack Levine, Ruth Gikow and Robert Gwathmey. - Meanwhile, Soviet uniform- ed police, plainclothesmen and soldiers broke up a planned hunger strike by four Jews seeking exit visas in Kishinev and arrested the participants and two Jewish spectators. The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported the authorities rushed into the central telegraph office at Kishinev Friday night 21/2 hours after the planned 48- hour demonstration began. The six arrested Jews were taken to the Kishinev police station and then to an - un- known destination, according to the SSSJ. The four hunger strikers, Leonid Bendensky, Mark Abramovich, Sender Levin- son and Yakov Schartzman all had served in the Red Army and this, the SSSJ said it learned, was used as a reason for denying them exit visas. In a letter to Soiet President Nikolai Po'4 •ry and to the president tie Moldavian Republic, the four Jews said the refusal because of their military service was "arbitrariness" on the part of ovir personnel. One of the two Jewish spectators - arrested, Miron Dorfman, recently staged a marathon 23-day hunger strike in an effort to obtain an exit visa. Soviet Jews Still Passing Through Austria to Israel VIENNA — Austrian and Jewish Agency officials re- port that at least as many Soviet Jews are passing through Austria as made the journey before the closing of Scholnau transit camp, and one government source sair there was a "tendency toward more Soviet emi- grants" now than before. Officials are reluctant to disclose figures for fear of inciting new Arab terrorism, but they acknowledge that between 15 and 150 Soviet Jews arrive in Vienna every day by train or plane. In the first nine months of last year, 20,031 Russians— Jewish and non-Jewish—had traveled through Austria, an average of about 75 a day. Kollek Dismisses Islamic Demand for Arab Jerusalem JERUSALEM ( J T A ) — Mayor Teddy Kollek repeated Sunday his conviction that Jerugalem should remain united as the capital of Israel. Kollek reacted to the Isla- mic summit conference in Lahore, which called for "the restoration of the holy city of Jerusalem to Arab sover- eignty." Kollek said he did not ex- pect a different resolution, but as the 'mayor of "united Jerusalem" who was aware of the everyday life in the city, he expressed his -con- viction that life in Jerusalem under Israeli rule was much better for its citizens than it had ever been during 0-^ 19 years of Jordanian ru, Noting that "we are' 0,fiv- ing,, for the solution of all religious and political prob- lems within the framework of one city," Kollek added: 1"There is complete personal freedom and free access to the holy places for every- body of all religions and na- tional origins." Fire Razes Jewish - Bookstore in London LONDON (JTA)—A Jewish religious bookshop on Cheet- han Hill Road, Manchester, known as "Pincus," burned down as a result of an ex- plosion. Police are seeking the culprits. 4:"•• /0, 0 • • .