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NEW YORK (JTA__)- --- and the Student Struggle
Mark Nashpitz, a 27-year- for Soviet Jewry. The sent-
old dentist, and Boris ence was imposed a few
Tsitlionok, a 31-year-old. _hours after the beginning of
plumber, were sentenced the trial which was closed to
Monday to five years in exile other Moscow Jewish activ-
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by a Moscow district court, ists and foreign correspond-
according to the National ents.
549-7170
Conference on Soviet Jewry
Under Soviet law exile
means the two men cannot
live in their home town of •
Moscow. There was no im-
mediate word, however;
where they would be sent.
They had been charged with
disturbing public order
which carries a maximum
penalty of three years im-
prisonment.
Soviet authorities ap-
peared to take pains to keep
the trial, already raising an
international clamor, from
being publicized. When for-
eign correspondents and
in the new enclosed Orchard Mall
some 40 Jewish activists
arrived at the court they
on Orchard Lake Road
'round a note on the door
saying the court was closed
1 /2 mile north
cleaning. However, pol-
of Maple Road for
ice confirmed the trial was
being .held but said the
Phone: 851-9080 courtroom was full. The
NCSJ said that Allen Grie-
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man, a lawyer from Illinois
who
is in the Soviet Union
Thursday-Friday evenings till 9 p.m.
as a tourist, tried to enter
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the courtroom but was also
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Friday, April 4, 1975 17

Moscow Sentences Soviet Jewish Activists
Nashpitz an d Tsitlionok, to Five Years 'In Exile'

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Nashpitz and Tsitlionok -
were the first Jewish ac-
tivists to be tried for public
protests in Moscow. They
were among nine Jews
who demonstrated outside
the Lenin Library Feb. 24
to protest against the • re-
fusal of Soviet authorities
to grant them emigration
visas. The others were re-
leased or were 'sentenced
to 10-15-day jail terms.
The two men's mothers,
Itta Nashpitz and Balya
Tsitlionok, both of whom
are now Israeli citizens,
have been conducting a vigil
outside the Soviet Embassy
in London to protest the"
trial. They continued to sit
outside the embassy gates
in inclement weather de-
spite a warning froth a doc-
tor that they should end
their demonstration.
Stanly
Lowell, chair-
man of the NCSJ, called the
trials of Nashpitz and Tsi-
tlionok a "fraud. He noted
that "there were early hints
that this trial, like others in
recent, months, would be
open to the press and cer-
tainly'friends of the accused
would be permitted to enter
the courtroom. By holding
this trial in camera, Soviet
authorities telegraphed to
the world that they were
afraid to hold an open trial
because there was no real
evidence against the men."
The Detroit Committee
for Soviet Jewry received
the letter signed by 120 So-
viet Jews calling on all Jews
to remember the plight of
Soviet Jews during the Pas-
sover season. The letter
asked for continued support
in their fight for freedom.
A second letter, 'written
by Anatoly Sharansky,
described the Feb. 24 dem-
onstration where Nashpitz
and Tsitlionok were ar-
rested. Sharansky said the
demonstration at the

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closed Lenin Library in
Moscow lasted less than 30
seconds when "individuals
dressed in civilian clothing
jumped out from hiding
and tore up the placard,
while one of them twisted
my arm behind my back in
a most professional man-
ner and dragged me into
the building."
- Of all the demonstrators
arrested, only Nashpitz and
Tsitlonok were singled out
for violating public order.
The Michigan Lawyers
Committee for Soviet Jewry
held a press _conference
Wednesday afternoon to
protest the conviction of the
two activists and irregulari-
ties in other recent trials of
Jews in the Soviet-Union.
Attorney Avern - Cohn,
who is chairman of the
Michigan Civil Rights Com-
mission, displayed 195 let-
ters of protest which will be
sent to Soviet legal officials.
He said the letters ques-
tion Soviet legal procedures
and irregularities in the
trials.,
In, Moscow, several
hundred Jews attending the
Sabbath-Passover morning
services in Moscow's syn-
agogue on Arkhipov St.
were ordered to leave and go
_home, Jewish sources re-
ported. The action followed
the dispersal of Jews from
the synagogue area by pol-
ice last week at the begin-
ning of Passover.
Police emptied the syn-
agogue during services and
pushed several Jews from
the vestibule and from the
steps outside. No arrests
were made, Jewish sources
reported, but some Jews
were roughed up when they
tried to linger: Other police-
men moved traffic along the
__narrow street and barred
some pedestrians.
Police action March 26
forced the services to be
abbreviated by - 20 minutes.
When some 400 Jews deft
the synagogue and gathered
on the street outside, police
moved in and dispersed
them. –
Both incidents came at a
time when Jewish activ-
ists contend that authori-
ties are trying to split their
movement by permitting
some applicants to emi-
grate while harassing oth-
ers.
Soviet authorities have
given exit visas to Yevgeny
and Aleksandr Levich, the
sons of Benjamin Levich,
the physical chemist; Mik-
hail Agursky, a cyberneti-
cist; and Aleksandr Gold-
farb, a biologist. Goldfarb,
according to the source,
said he did not believe the
exit visas reflect a change of
policy, but underscores So-
viet attempts to split the
movement and intimidate
others.
In New York, the Syn-
agogue Council of America
issued a sharp protest
against the Soviet police ac-
tion in dispersing Jews from
the MoscoW synagogue.
The SCA statement said
"This constitutes an out-
rageous desecration un-
precedented even in the
Soviet 'Union. Coming in

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the wake–of a rash of trials
of Soviet Jewish activists_
it suggests that Soviet au-
thorities are embarked on
a new wave or repression
that is ominously reminis-
cent of the Stalinist era,
"The Synagogue_ Council
of America de-mands that
this latest outrage be repu-
diated by Soviet authorities.
A campaign directed at ex-
tinguishing what little reli-
gious life has survived in
that country will trigger
world-wide reaction that
will dwarf earlier protest
activities."
With Israeli flags and
"Free Marina Tiemkin"
banners flying, 500 young
New York Jews, together
with contingents from
nearby counties, joined
legislators and dignitaries
for the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry's second
annual Walk-A-Thon Sun-
day.
The youths , obtained
"sponsors" for each of the-10
miles they walked through
Brooklyn under, rainy skies;
the proceeds will be sent to
families of the Soviet Jewish
Prisoners of Conscience by
the SSSJ.
Rep. Stephen Solarz (D.-
-N.Y;) led off the first contin-
gent of walkers who wore
symbolic prisoner uniforms,
declaring "We must con-
tinue to march for Soviet
Jews," especially in light of
the increasing harassment.
August Stern, whose father
Dr. Mikhail Stern's eight-
year sentence__,was con-
firmed last week, joined the
marchers and thanked them
for their continued proteits
on behalf of his family. Dr.
Stern was tried after his
sons applied to leave for Is-
rael. Stern was accompa-
nied by Bronx Borough
President Robert Abrams.
Many of the marchers
said they came in spite of
the rain to show their- anger
at Soviet police attacks on
Jews attending the Moscow
Synagogue. Others said
they were walking for Mar-

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
bomb exploded last Friday
in a bus on Rehov Herzl, the
main arteur connecting the
Jerusalem -bus station and
downtown area with outly-
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erem and Bayit Vegan.
Twelve persons were in-
jured, including the bus'
East Jerusalem driver, but
police said none were hurt
seriously.

At about the same time-a
home-made charge went off
outside a large shoe shop on
Jaffa Road, Jerusalem's
main shopping street. No
one was hurt and the only
damage was broken glass.

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