U.S.-TSSit Trade WeiTment Imminen Soviet Harassment of Jews Continues By JOSEPH POLAKOFF WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Ford told Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, "I think we have a lot to talk about" when they met at the White House Friday shortly after Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.Wash.) left a meeting there with the President and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Sen. Jackson said an agree- ment was close on the num- ber of Jews and others who will be perrhitted to leave the Soviet Union but he ob- served that some issues re- main to be solved. Jackson also said that he hoped a quick conclusion would be reached between the Ford Administration and key senators on the emigra- tion issue. He said the Soviet Union had come around 180 degrees on the emigration question but said that events in Russia recently, including the use of a bulldozer to wipe out an art exhibit near Mos- cow, indicated the need for close control by Congress on any emigration agreement. Assistant presidential press secretary John Hushen told reporters after the 2%-hour Ford meeting with Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Kissinger, that during the talks Ford touched on his discussion with Con- gress on the trade bill, which includes the Jackson Amend- ment. Whether the Congress or the President will determine the results of a United States- S o v i e t understanding on Soviet emigration practices was reported as the only major obstacle to adoption of U.S. legislation on the emigration-trade issue be- tween the two countries. Capitol Hill sources con- firmed that the administra- tion and the Soviet govern- ment have- reached an under- standing and that the focus now is on the administra- tion's willingness to allow Congress the authority to re- view and judge the results each year. Under the U.S.-Soviet agreement, reportedly "nailed down" by Gromyko and Kissinger, the Soviets pledged to allow about 60,- 000 Soviet citizens, including Jews, to emigrate annually and not to molest these appli- cants and family members. However, key congressional figures involved in the Jack- son/Mills-Vanik amendments to the Trade Reform Act pending in the Senate, insist that both houses of Congress must approve legislation each year to allow trade benefits to the Soviet Union to continue. The administra- tion, however, demands that the President report annually on Soviet emigration prac- tices and if the House or Senate were dissatisfied, it could then vote against fur- ther benefits. Reporters were told that the congressional position is firm and it is now up to the administration to act. Israel Exports 100,000 Olim Each Year After U.S.-Soviet Trade Bill TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Jewish Agency aliya and ab- sorption departments have embarked on preparatory plans to cope with an ex- pected immigration of 100,- 000 Soviet Jews a year as a result of the U.S.-Soviet agreement expected to be concluded shortly. Moshe Rivlin, director gen- eral of the Jewish Agency, said that while it is known that 130,000 Soviet Jews have applied for exit visas for emigration to Israel, he ex- pects many more to apply for visas once the Russians reverse their policy of per- secuting and harassing Jews who seek to emigrate. Rivlin said that by the end of 1975, 27,000 apartment units will be ready for new immigrants, and an effort will be made to increase construction for new immi- grants in the year to come. New York Jews Warn of Soviet Hoax, Sponsor Sunday Freedom Rally NEW YORK (JTA) — Against the backdrop of con- tinuing negotiations between U.S. and Soviet officials on the issue of Jewish emigra- tion, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry pledged "constant vigilance," so that Soviet Jews "will not become victims of another Soviet hoax." The sale of wheat to the Soviets and other "political deals" that benefitted the USSR "underscore the need for watchfulness in any ar- rangement with the Kremlin on emigration of Jews," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the conference. The Soviets "make deals when they suit their own purposes, not out of any humanitarian instincts. We cannot and must not play the PACKER • PONTIAC STILL THE WORLD'S LARGEST 1975 cars rriving area . Best Deal Always 30.Years of Satisfied Customers If you can't come to us we'll come to you RED STOTSKY . MILT LEVIN Call 863-9300 . Call 463-9300 18650 LIVERNOIS, SOUTH OF SEVEN. numbers game with the USSR. The barriers to free emigration by all those who wish to leave the Soviet Uriion must come down for all time," Hoenlein said. He noted that the negotia- tions give special timeliness to the Simhat Torah "Festi- val of Freedom" to be spon- sored Sunday by the Greater New York Conference in Manhattan. The event will "reaffirm support here for Jews in the Soviet Union who are striv- ing to gain their freedom, and be an expression of our commitment to the survival of Israel," said Kings Coun- ty District Attorney Eugene Gold, conference chairman. Theodore Bikel will be the master of ceremonies for the festival, which will be high- lighted by the presentation of a Torah scroll to author Elie Wiesel for the Soviet city of Khus. Gold said most of the Khust Synagogue was de- stroyed this spring and the Holy Ark and seven - Torah scrolls were badly burned. Soviet authorities closed down the synagogue, confis- cated the keys and refused to provide an alternate place of worship. Soviet police accused the Jews themselves of setting fire to the synagogue. Mem- bers of the synagogue, how- ever, suspect workers at a neighborhood factory w h o had often urged that the synagogue be converted into a sports club. The synagogue w a s re- opened after Jewish volun- teers worked around the clock to make basic repairs. However, the synagogue is still without Torah scrolls. Aleksander Feldman in Solitary Confinement at Soviet Prison Camp NEW YORK (JTA)—Alek- sander Feldman has been placed in solitary confine- ment in the prison camp near Odessa where he is serving a 31/2 year sentence, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. Feld- man was tried in November 1973 on charges of "malici- ous hooliganism." He has been kept separated from other Jewish prisoners since the start of his sentence, the NCSJ said. Meanwhile, it was reported. that police in Moscow Mon- day harassed Soviet Jews commemorating the World War II massacre of Ukrain- ian Jews at Babi Yar, one of the participants told United Press International. Leonid Tsipin said 300 po- lice and plainclothes security men prevented all but a dele- gation of 20 Jews from ap- proaching the site outside Kiev where 100,000 Jews were machine-gunned to death. The 20 were allowed to lay a wreath, he said, but the police ripped dedicatory in- scriptions from it. When members of the group tried to put on yar- mulkes and yellow Stars of David, the security men also destroyed these, Tsipin said. Russian Jewish Doctor Wishing to Emigrate Accused of Poison Plot NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish doctor in Vinnitsa in , hirthat the Siovi tempting to use the incident to discourage other Jews from seeking exit visas." The participants in the vigil, included Sister Rose Thering of Seton Hall University; Sis- ter Kathy Hardy, represent- ing the New` Jersey Council of Churches; Mary Jean Friel-Nieto, representing the --- viittsmowsir grftworicers of America; Dolores Mann, who works closely with the Ocean- front Council for Soviet Jew- ry, and Lorraine Nicolas, a student at Seton Hall. the Ukraine has been ac- Belong ever to the perse- cused of "attempted poison- cuted, rather than to the ing of children," the Student persecutors. Struggle for Soviet Jewry — Talmud here reported. Dr.Mikhail Stern, his wife, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ida, and their sons, Victor, 18—Friday, October 4, 1974 a physicist, and August, a biologist, all of whom have applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, wrote the SSSJ that the charge and in- Norton Stern timidation began immediate- ly after they received an in- on $3 Million of vitation from a relative in Israel. 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