Nixon Assails Jackson Amendment
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Nixon Wednesday
denounced the Jackson
Amendment in the strongest
terms he has yet publicly
used on the Soviet emigra-
tion issue and also pledged
continued U.S. efforts toward
"a permanent peace" in the
Middle East in a full-dress
foreign policy review.
Outlining what he de-
scribed as "America's stra-
tegy for peace," Mr. Nixon
emphasized U.S. relations
with the Soviet Union and
achievements in the Middle
East in addressing the grad-
uating class at the 'U.S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
His remarks were immedi-
ately interpreted here as dip-
lomatic blandishments pre-
paratory for his visits to four
Arab states end Israel be-
ginning Monday and his trip
to 'Moscow beginning June
27 for his third Soviet-Amer-
ican summit conference.
Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D.,
Ohio), who with Sen. Henry
M. Jackson (D., Wash.) and
Rep. Wilbur Mills (D., Ark.)
has been a prime sponsor of
the legislation tying U. S.
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the Soviet Union to ameliora-
tion of Soviet emigration
policy, scored Mr. Nixon's
latest remarks as "not re-
sponsive" to the views of
Congress.
The President's denuncia-
tion of "eloquent appeals"
for Soviet policy changes in
emigration also came at a
time when Soviet Jewish
emigration has fallen this
year by more than one-third
below the monthly average
of the two previous years
and harassment of Soviet
Jews has risen sharply in the
Soviet Union, together with
the growth of anti-Semitism
in the Soviet media.
The National Conference
on Soviet Jewry, in emer-
gency session here two days
ago, announced it would ap-
peal to President Nixon to
seek to intercede for Soviet
policy change when he goes
to Moscow.
In his speech, the Presi-
dent tied the Soviet Union
and the Middle East situa-
tions, declaring "the tension"
that led to four wars made
that area "a world tinderbox
that could easily draw the
United States and the Soviet
Union into military confron-
tation."
Last October's war, "while
tragic," he said, also pre-
sented "a unique opportu-
nity" because "for the first
time it was clear to us and
clear to the moderate lead-
ers of the-Arab world that a
positive American role was
indispensable to achieving a
permanent settlement in the
Middle East."
The military disengage-
ments on the Egyptian and
Syrian fronts, he said, in
praising Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger, removed
"an insurmountable road-
block" on the road to a "just
and lasting peace" that "is
still long and difficult."
"My trip to the Middle
East next week," Mr. Nixon
said, "will provide an op-
portunity to explore with the
leaders of the nations I shall
visit ways in which we can
continue our progress toward
permanent peace in the
area."
Reasserting his often-ex-
pressed position of "quiet
diplomacy" on the emigra-
tion issue, Mr. Nixon said,
"We continue to adhere firm-
ly to certain humane prin-
ciples not only in appropriate
international forums but also
in our private exchanges
with other governments —
where this can be effective.
We are more faithful to our
ideals by being concerned
with results, and we achieve
more results through diplo-
matic action than through
hundreds of eloquent
speeches," he declared.
"We would not welcome
the intervention of other
countries in our domestic af-
fairs, and we cannot expect
them to be cooperative when
we seek to intervene directly
in theirs," he added.
"We cannot gear our for-
eign policy to transformation
of other societies. In the nu-
clear age our first responsi-
bility must be the prevention
of a war that could destroy
all societies," he said.
Congressman Vanik, in a
statement tq the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, said that
"President Nixon should
speak more forcefully about
the rights of Soviet citizens
wishing to emigrate and
wishing to live in peace with-
out harassment in his upcom-
ing trade talks with the Rus-
sian leaders. Our need for
trade is not so great that we
can overlook the heartless-
ness of a nation toward its
own citizens."
Vanik noted that "Congress
for several years has sought
to impress upon the Soviet
Union what we consider to be
the immorality and illegality
of its treatment of its Jewish
citizens. Neither the Soviets
nor the President has been
responsive to those efforts."
The House by an over-
whelming majority has
adopted the Jackson-Mills-
Vanik legislation. The pro-
posal is in the Senate Fi-
nance Committee awaiting
action. Seventy-eight sena-
tors have sponsored it.
At the NCSJ emergency
session, President Stanley
Lowell charged that the re-
cent U. S. loan of $180,000,000
to the Soviet Union, lifting
the total credits to nearly
$500,000,000 from the Export-
Import Bank, "violates the
will of the Congress and the
American people as express-
ed by the overwhelming sup-
port of the Jackson-Mills-
Vanik amendment."
"Soviet Jews are being
used as hostages by a Soviet
regime which hopes to in-
timidate Soviet Jews, force
the U. S. Congress to reject
pending legislation, and
frighten American Jews into
ceasing their activities,"
Lowell said. "On all those
counts the Soviet regime has
miscalculated the will of the
American people."
Awards were presented to
Richard Maass, founding
chairman of the conference,
Sister Margaret Ellen Trax-
ler, co-chairman of the Na-
tional Interreligious Task
Force on Soviet Jewry, Clive
Barnes, dance and drama
critic of The New York
Times, and Patricia Barnes,
secretary of the Committee
for Valery and Galina Panov.
These were the first national
awards given by the confer-
ence.
Soviet Journal Calls
on Jews to Stay in Russia
COPENHAGEN (ZINS) —
The Soviet weekly Aganiak,
in a lead editorial, has is-
sued an appeal to all Soviet
Jews to remain where they
are, declaring that "emigra-
tion from the Soviet Union
and the loss of Soviet citizen-
ship is a fate worse than
death itself."
The appeal was addressed
to those "who are tempted
to succumb to degenerate
Zionist propaganda and who
still have time to avoid
taking this fatal step of emi-
gration."
Meanwhile, Aleksander
Feldman, the Kiev Jewish
activist, has been transferred
from solitary confinement to
a jail within the labor camp
for six months. Feldman has
gone on a hunger strike as a
result of this new punish.
ment.
According to the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
Soviet Jewish dancer Valery
Panov is now visited daily
by the KGB, Soviet secret
police, on charges of "para-
sitism."
Panov has considered
taking the jobs offered him,
that of janitor or doorman,
but fears this will not stop
the harassment.
His wife, Galina, is still
being pressured to return to
the Kirov Ballet Company,
but states that her condition
— she is three months preg-
nant — "demonstrates her
desire to be a wife and
mother." Panov fears im-
minent arrest.
Polina Epelman, long de-
nied a visa, staged another
hunger strike. Her 13-year-
old daughter joined her,
stating, "this is my struggle,
too."
Telephone communications
to Leningrad and Moscow
a r e virtually nonexistent.
The situation is reminiscent
of the time of the last presi-
dential trip, in June 1972,
when all activists' telephones
were disconnected and Jews
were rounded up and im-
prisoned in an effort to fore-
stall unexpected responses to
the summit, meetings, the
NCSJ_ said.
Jews Tuesday demonstrat-
ed for the third time in a
week outside the Intourist ho-
tel for foreigners. They were
protesting the Soviet govern-
men's refusal to grant them
exit visas.
Police broke up the demon-
stration and arrested six Jews
who held up placards in Rus-
sian, English and Hebrew,
the source said. Police ar-
rested eight Jews Saturday
night and five the previous
Saturday.
Other Moscow activists
have issued a letter in con-
nection with a hunger strike
staged May 28 in protest
against the "unjust sentence
and harassment of POC
Aleksander Feldman."
Activist Arkady Rutman
was detained; he was in
possession of an exit visa.
Valery Krizhak, who was
promised a visa, was also
detained.
Soviet Mission
Charges Zionist Plot
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Soviet Mission to the United
Nations accused New York
Mayor Abraham Beame and
Gov. Malcolm Wilson of par-
ticipating in "anti-Soviet
demonstrations" sponsored
by Zionists and of encourag-
ing acts of vandalism against
Soviet property.
The criticism was contain-
ed in a letter to the U. S.
mission which protested a
May 18 arson attack on a
car of a Soviet diplomat.
The letter quoted press re-
ports that a "Zionist group"
was responsible, adding that
the perpetrators not only
were "concealed but are di-
rectly encouraged to commit
such hostile acts by local of-
ficial authorities."
As evidence, the letter cit-
ed the "active leading role"
of Mayor Beame and Gov.
Wilson "in the organization
and conduct of anti-Soviet
demonstrations" in New
York.
Revenge is profitable, grat-
itude is expensive.—Edward
Gibbon.
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