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Friday, July 12, 1974-27
Nixon Summit Report Raises New s6migratton
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Doubts
cants. The NCSJ conceded occurred after the explana-
said they have come to the sian, appeared at a press
4,500 a month—but said that
under the circumstances the
drop was negligible.
Regarding Mr. Nixon's re-
ported assertion that without
a trade agreement that in-
cludes most favored nation
status for the Soviet Union,
the Soviet authorities could
rightly deny visa applica-
tions, NCSJ's chairman, Stan-
ley Lowell, said, in a state-
ment to the JTA Wednesday:
"T h e administration is
again fueling a dangerous
situation for the cause of So-
viet Jewry by putting the
cart before the horse. It is
true that freedom of emigra-
tion for Soviet Jews and the
ending of harassment re-
mains in the control of the
Soviet government. The NCSJ
supports trade and detente
but the burden of ending the
ordeal for Soviet Jews end's
in Moscow. Then, I ant sure,
they will find a greater sym-
pathy a n d understanding
among the American people
and especially in Congress."
Scott reported the Presi-
dent's views when he was
asked if a discussion had en-
sued at the briefing on a pos-
sible compromise at the sum-
mit talks on the emigration
issue, the Republican leader
replied that the President
"realizes that the matter is
entirely for Congress, but he
hopes they can work out a
trade bill that would be gen-
erally acceptable." Replying
to a question on whether Sec-
retary of State Henry A. Kis-
singer brought back from
Moscow "something new" on
the emigration matter, Scott
said, "that's better handled
by quiet talk."
Sen. Jackson (D., Wash.),
who earlier said that he was
prepared to negotiate on the
flow of emigrants, had stress-
ed that any agreement "de-
pends on the Russians to end
harassment of any Soviet cit-
izen who wishes to emigrate."
Soviet authorities began re-
leasing Jewish activists taken
into custody during the Mos-
cow summit meeting, Jewish
sources in the Soviet Union
reported. Soviet emigra-
tion policy and the harass-
ment of Jews seeking exit
visas for Israel were dis-
cussed by President Nixon
and Soviet Communist Party
leader Leonid Brezhnev at
their summit meeting , ac-
cording to Kissinger, who
made the report at a press
conference in Moscow July 3
recorded by the State Depart-
ment here. An estimated 100
Soviet Jewish dissidents were
rounded up in advance of
Mr. Nixon's arrival.
The Soviet government
made informal expressions of
regret to the three major
American television networks
for the blackout of transmis-
sions regarding the treat-
ment of Jews and dissidents
in the USSR. The telecasts by
NBC, CBS and ABC were
cut off in mid-sentence Tues-
day. Kissinger said at his
press conference July 3
that he lacked "details" of
the interruptions but "we
certainly don't approve of
them." A senior Soviet broad-
casting official attributed the
blackouts to "hot-headed"
technicians Who, he said,
had been told not to do it
again. But a second blackout
the lives of their relatives
and other prisoners in Soviet
labor camps.
Chaim Drori, a brother-in-
law of Yosif Mendelvich, who
was sentenced to 12 years at
the first Leningrad trial in
Dec. 1970, said there are
some 35 "prisoners of con-
science" in Soviet labor
camps and nothing has been
heard of any of them since
the end of May when they
went on a hunger strike, the
only means of protest for the
prisoners.
Mrs. Eva Butman, whose
husband, Hillel, was sen-
tenced to 10 years of strict
regime in the second Lenin-
grad trial in May 1971, said
all the relatives of the pris-
oners are in "desperate
straits" fearing for the lives
of their imprisoned relatives.
Julia Dymshits, whose fa-
ther Mark Dymshits was sen-
tenced to 15 years in the
first Leningrad trial, said
they were afraid because
prisoners who have been re-
leased have come out in poor
health or as invalids.
The three, speaking in Rus-
benefits to Russia on an eas- that visa applications were tion. The action is believed United States to appeal for conference at the Garment
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of its emigration policies, slightly higher during the to be in violation of an agree- aid to the American govern- Center Synagogue, sponsored
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Jackson said there "are same period last year—about ment made between the U. S. ment and people to help save by the Greater New York
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areas in which compromise
and negotiations from which
compromise can be effectu-
ated." But the movement has
to come from Russia, he
stressed.
He said he had made it
clear from the beginning that
not everyone has to leave the
Soviet Union at once. "The
real issue is whether it is pos-
sible for a person to apply
for a visa and not lose his
job or have his child treated
in a discriminatory way,"
Jackson said. "The harass-
ment issue is. the key issue
and it continues," he said.
But he stressed that the num-
ber of people who leave Rus-
sia "can be worked out. I am
ready to work out a sensible
arrangement."
Jackson rejected a state-
ment by his colleague, Sen.
J. William Fulbright (D.,
Ark.) on the NBC "Meet The
Press" program Sunday, that
the Jackson Amendment
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ance of a trade agreement
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the fact that the Soviet gov-
ernment has received less
AMERICANA III
(visa) applications recently
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than before, and his view that
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position by the President was
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The President's reported
assertion that visa applica-
tions have declined was
promptly refuted by the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry in New York. Accord-
ing to the NCSJ, visa appli-
cations have beeen running
at an average of 4,000 per
month during the first six
months of 1974, despite a 40
per cent cutback on emigra-
tion and despite increasing
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and USSR on broadcasts to
the U. S. of the summit talks.
A spokesman for the three
networks said, however, that
it had been decided not to
press the issue despite a
White House offer to lodge a
formal protest with the Rus-
sians.
Artists Intervene
for Soviet Jews
PARIS (JTA) — Actress
Romy Schneider and 63
French actors and writers,
including Simone de Beau-
voir, have appealed to Soviet
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to
grant three Soviet Jews per-
mission to emigrate to Israel.
They appealed on behalf of
Evgueny Barras, a journal-
ist; Felix Kamov, a writer;
and Mikhail Suslov, a cam-
eraman. Drawing attention
to the fact that all three
have been refused exit visas,
the artists strongly urge that
"t h i s intolerable situation
cease and insist the visas be
granted."
Three recent Soviet immi-
grants to Israel, who are
relatives of Soviet Jewish
"prisoners of conscience,"
4 Labor, Likud MKs Urge
Unity Govt.; NRP Seen
Ready to Join Coalition
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Four
Knesset members — two of
the Labor Alignment and two
from Likud—have urged the
formation of a national unity
government in which Labor
and the opposition parties
would work in partnership
.to lead Israel to peace
through strength, and bridge
the yawning social and eco-
nomic gaps in Israeli society.
That view was stated in a
pamphlet published here by
MKs Arie Eliav and Shalom
Levin of Labor, and Shlomo
Salman and Dr. Benyamin
Halevi of Likud.
The plea for a unity gov-
ernment came as a surprise
to both the Labor Alignment
and Likud. The leadership of
both factions was said to be
discussing it but no measures
were considered likely
against the four MKs, who
apparently spoke for them-
selves rather than their re-
spective parties.
More surprising was the
pairing of Eliav, an out-
spoken dove, with the hawk-
ish Dr. Halevi, a spokesman
for Likud's militant Herut
wing. Abramov belongs to
the more moderate liberal
branch of Likud. Levin, in
addition to being a Labor
MK, heads Israel's teachers
organization.
All four had taken their
positions before Premier
Yitzhak Rabin formed his
new cabinet, the most nar-
rowly based in Israel's his-
tory. They made their views
public at this time appar-
ently because the National
Religious Party seems about
to join the Rabin government,
which would kill chances for
a national unity regime.
NRP Secretary General
Zvi Bernstein said there
would be some action fol-
lowing the return of Ashken-
azic Chief Rabbi Shlomo
Goren from the U.S., where
he had been visiting for the
past three weeks.
Rabbi Goren is understood
to have agreed to a tempor-
ary formula for resolving the
Who Is a Jew issue ,-- one
acceptable to the Labor
Party and with which Labor's
present coalition partners
presumably could "live."
NRP circles believe that
Rabbi Goren succeeded in
persuading the American
Mizrachi lea de r, Rabbi
Joseph Soloveitchik, of Bos-
ton, to accept the formula.
In a taped interview with
Kol Israel radio, broadcast
here, Rabbi Goren insisted
that Rabbi Soloveitchik was
in no way involved.
The pamphlet urged such
a regime because Israel has
not emerged from the after-
math of the Yom Kippur
War, is still under heavy
political pressure and ter-
rorist attacks and has be-
come so dependent on the
United States as to rob it of
its initiative and even dilute
its sovereignty, the pamphlet
said.
They contended that the
present government, with the
best of intentions, could not
initiate necessary social and
economic reforms because
of its parliamentary weak-
ness."
"It is high time, before it
is too late, to return the na-
tion to the dimensions of a
sane policy, of a sound soci-
ety and of values," the pam-
phlet said. "We have to re-
turn to the golden path of
modernation and lead the
nation on the main road of
Zionism."
According to the authors
of the pamphlet, this can be
done only through new elec-
tions or by expanding the
base of the present coalition.
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive
d i r e c t or of the GNYCSJ
which along with the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
is sponsoring the three on
their 10-day trip in the U. S.,
said the group will meet with
Jewish leaders and with the
representatives of the United
Nations Commission on Hu-
man Rights and Amnesty In-
ternational in New York. In
Washington they will meet
with administration officials,
senators and congressmen
and representatives of the
American Red Cross.
Drori said thhe group also
hopes to meet with the
wives of President Nixon and
Vice-President Gerald Ford
because they believe they
would understand the suffer-
ing of young wives and chil-
dren whose husbands and
fathers are in Soviet labor
camps.
Voronel Plans
to Go Ahead With
Scientific Seminar
LONDON (JTA) — Prof.
Alexander Voronel, who was
released from jail July 6,
plans to go ahead with the
scientific seminar that the
authorities prevented him
from holding while President
Nixon was in Moscow, sourc-
es in the Soviet Union said.
Voronel indicated that the
gathering, supposed to have
begun July 1, will be held as
planned, probably next fall. It
was called off when most of
its organizers, including Vor-
onel, were jailed or sent into
hiding on the eve of Mr.
Nixon's arrival. Soviet police
cordoned off Voronel's Mos-
cow apartment where the
scientists were to meet and
arrested all persons entering
or leaving.
The purpose of the semin-
ar was to focus attention on
the plight of Jewish scien-
tists deprived of their jobs
for applying for emigration
to Israel. It was also intend-
ed to bring these scientists,
who have been isolated
from contacts with their col-
leagues, up to date on the
latest developments in their
fields.
The Soviet Union has
threatened to terminate the
visit of the Bolshoi Ballet to
London if Jewish demonstra-
tors continue to disrupt per-
formances and harass the
dancers outside the theater.
The warning came in a strong
protest to the British Foreign
Office following an incident
in which white mice were let
loose among the audience and
nails were thrown on the
stage.
U. S. Businessmen Favor
MFN Regardless of
Emigration Policies
NEW YORK (JTA) — An
overwhelming majority of
American business execu-
tives with international re-
sponsibilities favor the Unit-
ed States extending to the
Communist countries most
favored nation treatment
(MFN) without regard to
their government's emigra-
tion policies, a poll by Busi-
ness International Corpora-
tion revealed today. Of a
total of 195 executives, 83
per cent opposed attaching
any strings to the granting of
MFN and 15 per cent favored
restrictions, while 2 per cent
had no opinion.