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Deteriorating Situation for Soviet Jews Spurs
Appeal to Nixon Not to Make Things Worse

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Eighty Russian Jews who
have been refused exit visas
released an open letter to
President Nixon Monday
urging him not to help the
Soviet regime make their sit-
uation "more unbearable,"
the Natoinal Conference on
Soviet Jews reported.
The letter said its authors
held little hope for positive
results from Mr. Nixon's
forthcoming summit meeting
in M o s c o w which opens
Thursday.
The letter was the first
from Soviet Jews openly cri-
tical of Mr. Nixon. It said:
"Many hopes were placed on
your first visit and unfortun-
ately none were realized."
It recalled that when Mr.
Nixon visited the USSR in
June, 1972, there was an es-
calation of harassment, de-
tentions, and disconnections
of the telephones of Soviet
Jews. "Please do not help
your partners in the Moscow
talks make our situation
more unbearable," the letter
continued.
It said the Soviet Jews
were "deeply troubled" by
President Nixon's recent re-
marks at the Annapolis grad-
uation exercices that emi-
gration from the USSR is an
internal pr o b l e m of the
Soviet Union.
Signatories included Alek-
sandr S 1 e p a k, Benjamin

Levich and Aleksandr Lern-
er.
The new wave of harass-
ment and repression of Jews
seeking to leave the USSR
continues unabated while the
rate of emigration remains
at an extremely low level,
Jewish sources in the Soviet
Union reported.
In Chernovits, Albert Kol-
tunov, an official of the Jew-
ish national lottery, was sen-
tenced to 51/2 years in a
strict regime prison for---al-
leged bribery. He and his
wife, Genia, had applied for
exit visas to go to Israel
shOrtly before the charges
were brought.
- Two other Jewish activists,
Yuri and Anna Berkvosky of
Novosibirsk were arrainged
on charges of speculation and
illegal possession of firearms
which carry minimum penal-
ties of five years' imprison-
ment, the sources reported.
According to the sources,
there is not a shred of evi-
dence that the Berkovsky
couple committed the of-
fenses they are accused of. -
In Moscow, the trial of-
Viktor Polsky on charges of
reckless driving continued
after the court repected a de-
fense motion for dismissal on
grounds of insufficient evi-
dence.
The private telephones of
Jewish activists in Moscow
remained disconnected and
the phones of Prof. Aleks-
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scribers.
Another activist, Vitaly
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to find a job or face . a year's
imprisonment on charges of
"parasitism," the sources
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day of Nixon's arrival have
been called up for military
service although hitherto they
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Jewish emigration from the
service at reasonable prices.
Soviet
Union, which has been
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running far behind last year's
mates.
rate, continued to decline.
Only 1,225 Jews left Russia
in May, compared to the 1973
average of 3,000 departures
a month, the sources report-
ed.
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The Washington Commi-
ttee for Soviet Jewry an-
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nounced that its • members
would seek to disrupt Soviet-
U.S.. telephonic communica-
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tions to protest the discon-
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ish dissidents in Moscow. The
committee said it was acting
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the Soviet Embassy in Wash-
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ganizational leaders demon-
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fourth anniversary of the
Leningrad hijack trials.
Addressing a Jewish audi-
ence in New York, Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.) accused the U.S.
government of having - "de-
liberately attempted to mis-
represent to the American
people" what the issue is in
the J a c k son Amendment
linking U.S.-Soviet trade to
an easing of Soviet emigra-
tion restrictions.
"I am not impressed when
the White. House tries to dis-
miss the wholesale violations
of human rights in the Soviet
Union as none of America's
business," Jackson told the
Jerusalem Great Synagogue
dinner at the Plaza Hotel.
Jackson said that his
amendment, "far from in-
truding into the internal af-
fairs of the Soviet Union,
simply conditions eligibility
for certain U.S. economic
co_cession on respect for the
right to emigrate, which is
specifically affirmed in the
Universal Declaration of Hu-
man Rights and in other in-
ternational agreements which
the Soviet Union itself has
ratified."
'Jackson accused adminis-
tration officials, and specific-
ally President Nixon of
"grossly overstating" what
the amendment seeks and
"just as grossly understat-
ing" or completely ignoring,
what the USSR seeks from
the U.S.
The national board of the
National Council of Jewish
Women at the conclusion of
its four-day annual meeting
in New York, expressed dis-
agreement with President
Nixon's recently articulated
policy on detente, an appar-
ent withdrawal from an ear-
lier U.S. position of concern
for Soviet Jews.
Eleanor Marvin, national
president of NCJW, stated
that "a repressive campaign
to restrict emigration in the
face of a known backlog of
thousands of requests for exit
visas underscores the sharp
deterioration of the condition
of Soviet Jews. The granting
of a visa to Valery Panov
and his wife Galina Ragozina
clearly reflects a political
gesture on the eve of Presi-
dent Nixon's trip. This action
also demonstrates that mani-
festations of concern for the
peoples :of the world by or-
ganizations, international bod-
ies, or even governments can
scarcely be considered inter-
ference in the internal affairs
of other nations, and do have
a positive result on the cause
of human. rights."
Panovs, Tired but Happy,
ance of her ORT chapter,
TEL AVIV - (JTA)—Valery
and Galina Panov arrived at
Ben-Gurion- airport from Vi-
enna near midnight Sunday
and Ieft their plane exclaim-
ing, "We have come home.
This is our home."
The famous dance couple
looked tired after their long
trip from Leningrad to Vi-
enna, where they arrived for
a brief rest -before boarding
an Austrian Airways plane
for Israel.
Galina, who had been hos-
pitalized in Vilnius the prior

week, was disclosed to have
suffered a miscarriage dur-
ing the weekend before she
and Valery left the Soviet
Union.
A huge crowd of dancers,
artists and fans, as well as a
large corps of - ournalists and
cameramen—the latter hav-
ing arrived for the visit by
President Nixon—greeted the
couple at Ben-Gurion airport.
Uzzi Narkis, head of the
Jewish Agency's •aliya de-
partment, welcomed the
Panovs and escorted them to
the VIP lounge at the air-
port. "We are dead tired but
we are happy," Panov said.
Asked if he intended to
make Israel his home, he re-
plied "of course." He added
"we hope we both find work
in Israel." He said "we will
dance for Israel but we be-
lieve art has no boundaries."
Panov said "Art is for the
entire world but it is known
that from Zion there shall
come the knowledge unto the
world."
Panov said he expected to
return to normal dance form
after a few months of re-
hearsals.
The Bat Dor troupe has
offered to incorporate the
Panovs in its programs but
this is not definite. Panov
put the word "Jew" opposite
the appropriate entry in the
immigration document. His
wife, who is not Jewish, left
that item blank.
Prior to their departure
from the Soviet Union, hun-
dreds of demonstrators had
held a protest march outside
London's Coliseum Theater
where the Bolshoi Ballet was
performing.
Threats to disrupt the pro-
gram were averted when 15
members of the "Stop the
Bolshoi Committee" were
ejected. London critics found
the famed Corps de Ballet
from Moscow not up to its
previous artistic standards.
Well-known Soviet song-
writer and poet Aleksandr A.
Galich also reported that he
was given permission to emi-
grate to Israel. A critic of

Soviet society through satire,
Galich and his wife must
leave the Soviet Union by
Tuesday, prior to President
Nixon's visit. For his out-
spoken ways he was dis-
missed from the writers
union in 1971.
The Greater New York
Conference on Soviet- Jewry
reported Monday that physi-
cist Boris Rubenstein of
Leningrad has received per-
mission to emigrate to Israel
after a three - year - long
struggle.
Precedent Set as Soviet
Diplomat Testifies in U. S.
Court Against JDL Youth
NEW YORK — A Soviet
diplomat testified as a gov-
ernment witness Monday at
the Federal Court trial of
two Jewish Defense League
members accused of knock-
ing him down and dousing
him with beef blood.
The diplomat, German M.
Kosenkov, is believed to be
the first Soviet diplomat to
testify against an American
citizen. Kosenkov, second
N

secretary to the Soviet Mis-
sion to the UN, spoke through
an interpreter.
Kovenkov identified Mitchell
Rein, 17, of Brooklyn, as one
of two persons who attacked
him last year in Manhattan.
Rein was found guilty and
faces a possible sentence of
confinement until he is 21.
Sentencing was set for July.
Meanwhile, Kosenkov was
unable to identify a second
defendant, Zelig Spirn, 19, of
Queens. The verdict in his
case was deferred.

Syrian Newborns
Named for Rockets

LONDON — Newborn boys
in Syria are now frequen
named Sam after the SoNi ,
ground-to-air rockets, Jus
Faisal, member of the Polit-
bureau told Josef Hora of
Prague radio in an interview
recorded in Damascus re-
cently.
The October war proved
that the, Soviet Union is a
friendly country, Faisal said.

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