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Norman Allan Heads Task Force

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Friday, Nov. 22, 1974-43

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Detroit to spur Israel Bond
sales in light of Israel's diffi-
cult financial situation. ,
The cash mobilization kick-
off campaign will begin at a
gathering 10 a.m. Sunday at
the Zionist Cultural Center.
The community is invited.
Phone squads will be organ-
ized to collect outstanding
pledges. For information, call
the Israel Bond office, 968-
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The Detroit Committee for
Soviet Jewry is urging indi-
viduals to send telegrams to
the Soviet Union to protest
the trial of Dr. Mikhail Stern
which began Wednesday in
Vinnitsa.
Dr. Stern, a physician for
more than 30 years, has been
charged with trying to kill
non-Jewish patients through
deliberate improper medical
care.
The Detroit Committee is
urging individuals to send
telegrams as part of a na-
tion-wide prOtest. The charg-
es were brought after the
respected physician . applied
to emigrate.
The group suggests the
following telegram be sent to
Roman yudenko, Phushkin-
skaya Stre
et,
e 15-A, Moscow,
USSR:
"We urge the immediate
release of Dr. Mikhail Stern,
and the withdrawal of all
false charges against him."
According to London re-
ports, Dr. Stern's elder son,
Viktor, has now been grant-
ed an exit visa, presumably
to get him out of the way
before the start of the trial.
Viktor has been the most,ac-
tive member of the family
in campaigning on behalf of
his father.
Viktor has said that he
will refuse to accept the visa
which stipulates that he must
leave the Soviet Union by
Dec. 1.
Dr. Stern will be defended
by a lawyer appointed by

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the authorities. He is Dmitry
Pantelyevich Skripnik of the
Vinnitsa Lawyers Council.
The local authorities have
said that Dr. Stern himself
reqUested to be _defended by
a local lawyer, which is not
true, according to sources.
Dr. Stern's physical condi-
tion is reported to be deter-
iorating.
Meanwhile, Victor Polsky
of Moscow, a leading Soviet
Jewish activist, has received
permission to leave the So-
viet Union and is expected
to depart within a week.
The approval marked the
end of a four-year struggle
by the physicist to emigrate.
Polsky was recently tried on
charges of reckless driving
and was convicted but not
jailed. He was fined 100 ru-
bles, a fine regarded as an
indication of Soviet yielding
to intense Western pressure,
sources said.
"What would create joy
would be if a whole group
could go. I cannot help think-
ing of those being left be-
hind," Polsky said. •
Polsky, 44, said he plan-
ned to take his whole family
with him, including his wife,
daughter, mother, daughter-

in-law, sister and niece.
Also in Russia, three Jews,
former prominent members
of the film industry, began
a five-day hunger strike
Monday to coincide with the
London film festival at which
Soviet films will be shown.
Mikhail Suslov, a film cam-
era man, Felix Kandel-Ka-
mov, a cartoon,scenarist, and
Leon Kann, a sound operator
and dubbing editor, said they
are protesting against the re-
fusal of Soviet authorities to
grant theni exit visas.
Suslov and Kandel-kamov
staged a 12-day hunger strike
last month c&nciding with
the San Francisco film festi-
val which also showed Soviet
films.
A fourth Jew, former jour-
nalist Yevgeny Baras, who
participated in last month's
hunger strike, said he' would
not join the new one as he
understood his application to
emigrate is being considered
by Soviet authorities.
The three hunger strikers.
said they were also protest-
ing against repressions, per-
secutions, illegality and arbi-
trariness on • the part of So-
viet officials, Jewish sources
said.

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AJCommittee Spokesman Talks
of World Jewish Events in Detroit

David Geller, director of
European and Latin Ameri-
can affairs for the American
Jewish Committee, spoke be-
fore the local chapter of the
AJCommittee, the Jewish
Welfare Federation and at
Wayne State University this
week as part of a Midwest
tour.
Geller covered a wide
range of topics, including the
general s t a t u s of Jews
throughout the world, Soviet
emigration, Arab politics and
the United Nations.
He commented on the fall
in the birth rate of Jews in
this country and abroad,
which coupled with assimila-
tion and intermarriage has,
reduced Jewish growth.
"Jewish communities in
Syria, Latin America, and
Russia are also in trouble.
What is their future?" he
asked. -
"Even in the so-called free-
er parts of the world, like
France and England, 'Jews
are becoming uncomfortable
with government policy de-
cisions towards Israel. Pay-
ments are being made on the
political front to the Arabs at
the expense of Jewish citi-
zens.
"In the U.S. we are also
concerned 'about what the
economy is going to do," he
added. "In the past, in times
of upheaval the Jews have
suffered."
He said he agreed . with
Sen. Henry Jackson and other
congressional leaders who
have called for the U.S. to
become self-sufficient in oil
and energy production.
"There are many in Con-
gress who believe the survi-
val of Israel is in the best
interests*of the United States.
But if the U.S. does not be-
come self-sufficient in oil, the
bigots will rise again.
"They will sacrifice Israel
to obtain oil," he said.
Geller believes • that tilie

DAVID GELLER

USSR will live up to its Jack-
son. Amendment committ-
ment to allow Soviet Jews to,
leave. "They badly need
American technology," he
said, but added that ensuring
that the Soviets keep the bar-
. gain will be difficult.
"The Soviets have actually
increased harrassment of
Jews since the Jackson
Amendment was agreed to a
few weeks ago. The notable
exceptions were the relase of
Sylva Zalmans9n and Victor
Polsky."
Geller believes the Soviets
are trying to lower the num-
ber of applicants wishing to
leave the country, and at the
same time look good in the
future when the U.S.-Russian
trade package is finally
adopted by,. Congress and is
placed into effect.
Geller left Detroit for .mid-
week visits ...to Indianapolis
and Fort Wayne as part of
his fund-raising and lecture
tour.

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