Dr. Stern's Trial Starts in USSR Amid World Protests

es in the Soviet Union, the
malpractice and b r e r y
charges brought against Dr.
Mikhail _Stern in Vinnitsa,
Ukraine, are being used to
Friday, Dec. 13, 1974,19 circumvent the Soviet under-
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Dr. Stern, 56, had his trial.
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LONDON (JTA) — Soviet tion to prevent Jews from
authorities are being accused applying for exit visas to go
of various forms of harass- to Israel.
According to Jewish sourc-
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from patients to provide designating certain large in-
them with generally unob- dustrial centers as "closed
towns" for the .purpose of is-
tainable drugs.
Another unsubstantiated suing exit visas.-
Reports of continuing So-
charge that he had deliberat-
ely poisoned patients in. order viet harassment of visa ap-
to treat them was dropped plicants and their families
by the authorities following a has prompted a leading
world-wide protest. Jewish black official in Mayor Abra-
sources said that Dr. Stern ham Beame's administration
was arrested last May be- to caution Sen. Henry M.
cause his sons had applied Jackson (D-Wash.) and other
U.S. officials to "go slow" on
for emigration visas.
His case is seen as an at- rade treaty.
Benjamin Malcolm, the
tempt by Soviet authorities
to intimidate other Soviet Commissioner 'of Correction
Jews from applying for visas, who just returned from a
the implication being that if visit , to the Soviet Union, said
they do, members of their he was preparing a special
families could be arrested on memorandum on his contacts
trumped-up charges, the with Jews, in Moscow, Lvov,
Leningrad and Kiev.
sources- said.
"If_ there's to be any suc-
Although Dr. Stern has
been under detention for six cess with favored (trade)
months, his defense lawyer, treatment,- Soviet . Jews feel
A. Axelband, of Moscow was that their phones should be
given his file only on Nov. turned back on," . Malcolm
,told a radio interviewer.
25.
He reported that "at the
Nearly 1,000 British dttc- moment' all phoneS to Jewish
tors, including Lord Moran persons who wish to emi-
who had served during World grate have been turned off"
War II as Winston' Church- and some have to travel 10
ill's personal physician, and miles to communicate with
Sir Stewart Duke-Elder; the each other. He said the So-
world famous opthalmic sur- viet Jews also want restora-
geon, signed a petition to the tion of their. right to read
Soviet authorities protesting Western newspapers and the
against the treatment of . Dr. elimination of the 900 ruble
Stern.
(about $1,000) emigration
Some 50 of the petitioners head tax.
held a vigil Dec. 1 outside
In another :: development,
the Soviet Embassy. When a the Academic Committee on
delegation of doctors tried to Soviet Jewry which is head-
present the petition to the quartered in New York has
Soviet Embassy it was re- sent a cable of support to a
fused.
36-year-old Moscow mathe-
In New York, the Medical matician and cybernatician,
Committee on Soviet Jewry and his wife, Natalia, who
has accused the Soviet Union have been on a hunger strike-
of "blood libel" against - Dr. since Nov. 19.
Stern. ,
The Rosenstein's, and their
Dr. Lowell E. Bellin, the two children, ages 5 and 12;
New York City Helath. Com- have been refused visas to
missioner and honor ary emigrate to Israel. They
chairman of the Medical have requested Israeli citi-
Committee, and Dr. Samuel zenship. The Academic Com-
Korman, chairman ; said that mittee is mobilizing its mem-
the group has started an in- bers on behalf of the family.
tensive campaign to force
In a letter to Congress, re-
the Russian authorities to leased by the National Con-
free Dr. Stern.
ference on Soviet Jewry,
The. Medical Committee, an Natalia urged the legislators
affiliate of the Greater New to use "extreme foresight"
York Conference on Soviet in acting on the Trade Re-
Jewry, is circulating petitions form Bill so to assure that
among thousands of doctors. the . Soviet Union complies
They also placed a phone with the American trade ag-
call to the local authorities . reement.
in Vinnitsa to demand his re-
lease on grounds of "human-
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ity and justice."
It was disclosed meanwhile on U.S. Jewish Life
by the National Conference
YORK—A new study
on Soviet Jewry that nine of NEW
the American Jewish com-
Jewish activists in Moscow
appealed to President Ford munity explores Jewish
life against a
meeting with Soviet Commu- organizational
background
of
Jewish
nist Party Secretary Leonid economic and political social,
char-
I. Brezhnev in Vladivostok to
intercede on behalf of Dr. acteristics.
The study, "The Structure
Stern.
and Functioning of the Ameri-
Their message to Ford also can Jewish Community," was
spelled out in detail how So- made by Will Maslow, for-
viet authorities were surrep- mer executive director of the
titiously reneging on the un- American Jewish Congress
derstanding on emigration and now its general counsel.
they had conveyed to Secret-
Included in the study are
ary Kissinger.
issues of Jewish concern in-
According to the activists, cluding intermarriage, which
the authorities were system- Maslow estimates at about 32
atically isolating Jews in pro- per cent; the Jewish role in
vincial cities and towns from politics, social characteristics
Moscow, They are forcing of American Jews, organiza-
Jews in the provinces tQsign tion of the U.S. Jewish com-
undertakings not to apply for munity and Jewish leader-
exit visas.
ship.
Jews "who refuse to sign
The illustrated study will
such pledges are threatened appear in a book on the struc-
with loss of their jobs and, in ture of Jewish communities
selected cases, wit imprison- throughout 'the world soon
ment or induction into the to be published by the Insti-
armed forces.
tute of Jewish Affairs, asso-
In addition, the activists ciated with the World Jew-
said, the authorities were ish Congress.

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