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Massive U.S. Rallies Support Soviet Jews
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Sunday for Soviet Jewry."
The march here, which ran
30 city blocks, was the larg-
est of many held in cities
across the country organ-
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mission to leave the Soviet
Union. Many of the demon-
strators carried pictures or
the names of Soviet Prison-
ers of Conscience and other
Soviet Jews who have been
harassed in the USSR. New
York City area Congress-
men carried pictures of the
POCs each of them had
"adopted."
Some of the marchers
urged freedom for Syrian
Jews, too. A group of youths
wore bloodstained Arab ka-
fiyas and nooses and chains
to underscore the plight of
the Jews in Syria. Some
demonstrators carried signs
urging support for Israel
and others had placards de-
nouncing Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger.
At Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza, Sen. Henry M. Jack-
son (D-Wash.) accused Pres-
ident Ford of encouraging
Soviet bad faith over the em-
igration of Jews to Israel
when the President last
Thursday denounced the
Jackson Amendment provi-
sions.
Ford, in his "State of the
World" speech last Thurs-
day, called for legislation
eliminating the Jackson-
Vanik provisions requiring
unharassed emigration by
Jews and others in the So-
viet Union.
Sen William E. Brock (D-
Tenn.), told the crowd that
"there is no need to knuckle
under on the Jackson
Amendment, or any other
matter."
Other speakers included
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.), Governor
Hugh Carey, Mayor Abra-
ham ,Beame and Dr. Vik-
tor Polsky, the Soviet Jew-
ish scientist who recently
emigrated to Israel. Also
present were Batya Tsi-
tlionok and Itta Nashpitz
whose sons were sentenced
last week to five years in
exile. They also appeared
at ti:Detroit rally Wednes-
day at the Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
Stanley Lowell, chairman
of the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry, accused the
Soviet Union of breaking its
word on emigration, and the
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Ford Administration of
doing nothing.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,
president of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis, and Ter-
ence Cardinal - Cooke, Arch-
bishop of the Diocese of
New York, also spoke and
Manhattan Borough Presi-
dent Percy Sutton read a
statement of support from
New York's Black commu-
nity.
Several hundred members
of the Jewish Defense
League, which labeled the
march a "picnic" organized
by the Jewish establish-
ment, sat down in the mid-
dle of Second Avenue, a
block away from the Plaza,
when police refused to allow
them to go to First Avenue
and hold a sit-down demon-
stration in front of the
United States Mission to the
UN. Police arrested 134.
JDL speakers said their
demonstration was to op-
pose the Ford-Kissinger
policy toward Israel and
detente with the Soviet
Union.
In Israel, Solidarity Day
was observed as President
Ephraim Katzir set the tone
at a rally at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem
where he urged Soviet au-
thorities to discontinue the
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Soviets Warn 4
NEW YORK (JTA)
Four Jewish activists in
Moscow were warned last
week that serious charges
may be brought against
them, the National Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry re-
ported Monday. Aleksandr
Lunts was told he would be
charged with violating for-
eign currency regulations;
Benjamin Fine, with anti-
Soviet propaganda; Elias
Esas, with anti-Soviet slan-
der; and Vladamir Lazaris,
with treason.
persecution of Jews who
apply for exit visas.
"We are witnessing, by
coercion, a limitation on exit
permits issued to Jews
which has resulted in a
large and significant drop in
Jewish emigration from
Russia in recent months,"
President Katzir said.
At the Wise Auditorium
in Tel Aviv, a capacity audi-
ence was addressed by S. Z.
Abramoff, a Knesset mem-
ber and chairman of the
Public Committee for Rus-
sian Jewry. He shared the
platform with two recent
immigrants from the USSR,
Sylva Zalmanson and Yev-
geny Levich. Students at Tel
Aviv University held a rally
of their own to express soli-
darity with the Jews of Rus-
sia.
Telephone calls received
from the Soviet Union indi-
cated that many Russian
Jews were on hunger
strikes. With hopes fading
for relief through such
means as the Jackson
Amendment, Soviet Jews
apparently have decided to
resume their struggle for
visas publicly.
In Canada more than
100 representatives of ma-
jor Canadian Jewish or-
ganizations ,and institu-
tions called on the
Canadian government 'to
intervene with the Soviet
Union in behalf of Soviet
Jewry.
The Jewish leaders met in
an all-day conference under
the auspices of the Cana-
dian Jewish Congress to
consider means of combat-
ting the repressive policies
of the Soviet government
toward Jews.
August Stern, the son of
Dr. Mikhail Stern, the Vin-
nitsa physician who was
sentenced to eight years in
prison, addressed the con-
ference.
Stern and a group of peo-
ple demonstrated outside
the Soviet Consulate in
Montreal, and a solidarity
day for Soviet Jews will be
held in Montreal next week.
Some
1,500 - 2,000
marched in a candlelight
parade in Washington in
support of Soviet Jews.
The marchers were ad-
dressed by Mrs. Charlotte
Jacobson, chairman of the
American Section of the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion, and Viktor Polsky,
Soviet Jewish activist who
recently immigrated to Is-
rael.
Polsky described the
plight of Vladimir Slepak
who _Sunday began a hun-
ger strike to mark the fifth
anniversary of the refusal of
the Soviet government to
give him and his family an
exit visa. In the Miami, Fla.
area, five dentists and their
wives began a hunger strike
in support of Slepak.
The five American Jewish
couples had attempted to
hold a picnic with the Sle-
pak family in a Moscow
park last year and were har-
assed by Soviet police.
Polsky is also scheduled
to speak Sunday in Los
Angeles during the mid-
point of the second annual
Am Yisrael Chai-Solidarity
Walk. The walk climaxes a
week of activities in Los An-
geles.
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Activist Arrives
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Mi-
chael Agursky, 42, a Soviet
Jewish activist, has arrived
here with his family. His
father, Samuel Agursky,
who died in 1947, was an as-
sociate of Lenin. Agursky
applied for his exit visa 4 1/2
years ago.
Mothers Plead for Soviet Sons
The mothers of Soviet
"prisoners of conscience"
Mark Nashpitz and Boris
Tsitlionok pleaded with an
audience of 150 at the Jew-
ish Community Center
Wednesday evening to "do
all in your power, in any
way possible, to help rescue
our children."
The two men were re-
cently convicted in a Soviet
court for violating public
order and sentenced to five
years "in exile" in Siberia.
Speaking in Yiddish,
translated by Irving Pan-
ush, Mrs. Nashpitz said nei-
ther man has been able to
find work during the four
years since they had applied
to immigrate to Israel.
They were arrested with
approximately 30 others
for demonstrating in Mos-
cow for -an opportunity to
emigrate to Israel. Mrs.
Nashpitz said she left for
Israel in 1974 with the
understanding from Soviet
authorities that her den-
tist son would be allowed
to follow her within three
months. Tsitlionok is a
plumber and locksmith.
Attorney Dan Berk of the
Michigan Lawyers Commit-
tee for Soviet Jewry sug-
gested that the audience
write letters of protest to
President Ford, Soviet Am-
bassador Anatoly Dobrynin,
senators and congressmen,
and Soviet officials because
of irregularities in the trial.
He said the men were not al-
lowed to present defense
witnesses, and other Soviet
regulations with regard to
due process were not fol-
lowed in their trial.
A speech Nashpitz made
to the court was read to the
.
audience by Allan Rosen-
berg, chairman of the De-
troit Committee for Soviet
Jewry. Nashpitz told the
court he has been tried
twice in Russia, and both
were for the "crime" of
wanting to leave for "my
historical homeland."
The meeting was part of
the Israel Independence
Week activities at the main
Jewish Community Center,
and was co-sponsored by the
Detroit Committee for So-
viet Jewry, the Jewish Com-
munity Council and the De-
troit and alumni chapters of
Women of Alpha Omega
Jewish dental fraternity
auxiliary.
Argentines Stop Warsaw Memorial
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)
— Cordoba authorities
banned a Warsaw Ghetto
memorial meeting planned
by the Cordoba branch of
the DATA, the central
agency for Argentine Je-
wry.
The official reason for the
action was given by authori-
ties as "technical reasons"
involving security. Officials
stressed that, for similar
reasons, they were banning
a political meeting of the op-
position Intransigent Party.