32 Friday, June 6, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
2 Soviet Jews Face Trial, 1 Sentenced in Current Russian Harassment
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Two Soviet Jews face possi-
ble prison sentences and a
third has been prosecuted in
the latest wave of trials and
harassment of Jews in the
USSR, the Greater New
York Conference on Soviet
Jewry reported.
According to reports from
the Soviet Union, Sendor
Levenzon was sentenced to a
prison term of six Years in a
forced labor camp on
charges of illegal currency
speulation.
Meanwhile, Rita E. Hau-
ser, chairwoman of the Na-
tional Lawyers Commiteee
for Soviet Jewry, labelled
the sentencing of Levizon,
"another example of the
barbaric efforts carried out
by Soviet officials against
Soviet Jews who seek to
emigrate in order to crush
the Soviet Jewish move-
ment."
:r. Hauser, a former
J. Representative to the
■ ft. Commission on Hu-
7.1n Rights, pointed out
phis case is part of a
)attern whereby Soviet
. officials, seeking to intimi-
date Soviet Jews who wish
to emigrate, have arrested
and tried them on
trumped-up 'economic
charges' and then sent-
enced them to long prison
terms."
,In Moscow, Anatoly
Malkin has been arrested
for draft evasion and could
be sentenced to 10 years in
prison if he is brought to
trail.
Prof. Mark
Azbel was summoned to
KBG (secret police) head-
quarters in Moscow and
warned that he will be pro-
secuted unless he discontin-
ues the scientific seminars
he has been conducting in
his apartment.
The seminars are at-
tended by Soviet Jewish
scientists who have been
dismissed from their jobs
occasionally, by visit-
\ scientists from abroad.
Their purpose is to keep
the unemployed scientists
abreast of developments in
their fields.
Lazbel, meanwhile, has
appealed to Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet
Academy of Sciences presi-
dent Keldysh "to grant me a
pardon on the 250th anni-
versary celebration of the
academy" to occur in Octo-
ber, "to enable me to go to
Israel to join my son," the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry has learned.
In the "almost 21/2 years
since I first asked for my
exit visa," Azbel stated, "my
life has been made a hell.
Imagine that every word
you say to your wife, daugh-
ter or friend is being heard
by strange and hostile ears,
that your every movement is
being followed by KGB
agents, that acquaintances
try not to meet with you
fearing the consequences,
that detentions, visits by
police to your apartment at
any time of the day or night
threatening to try you for
crimes you did not commit
— that all this has become
routine for you.
"These years of waiting
have made me at the age of
43 a chronically sick man,
have destroyed my wife's
health and are threatening
the health of my five-year-
old daughter.
"I therefore appeal per-
sonally to each scientist to
telegram Leonid Brezhnev
and Soviet Academy of
Sciences president M.
Keldysh. If every scientist
will do so I hope that the
voices of thousands will be
heard and my family will
have — at least — a nor-
mal life."
The SSSJ reported that
prisoners of conscience Ya-
kov Suslensky and Yosef
Mishner have been trans-
ferred to the notorious Vla-
dimir Prison.
The SSSJ also reported
that Marina Tiemkin, the
Moscow teenager kidnaped
r.
With a wall full of Western newspaper clippings, Ti-
bilisi physicist brothers Tsai and Grigory Goldstein and
their elderly mother Manya show their defiance of an
oppressive Soviet regime, in a photo obtained by the Stu-
dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Although the brothers
are threatened with trial, Isai has named his infant son
Abraham as a sign of their determination to live in Is-
rael.
by Soviet police agents after
she and her father received
permission to leave for Is-
rael, has been seen in the
Soviet capital, suffering
from an induced mental
disturbance. In addition,
mail to Marina from the
West is being withheld from
her.
her right leg. Checking, wry has issued an appeal
Polotsk found this had on behalf of Sofia Belot-
been caused by a "cerebral serkovskaya Gorin who is
disturbance." forced to stay in Russia be-
Prof. Tiemkin has written cause she has had contact
with secret documents.
to the International Red
Cross in Geneva, asking that
Mrs. Gorin is the wife of
it send a team of Swiss phy- Edward Gorin, a member of
sicians and psychologists to the Bolshoi Radio and Tele-
Marina was met on the Moscow to examine Marina. vision Symphony Orchestra,
street on April 17th and The Red Cross had pre- who was permitted to leave
21st by a friend of the fam- viously turned down his re- for Israel after being dis-
ily , Jewish activist Mik- quest to intervene on Mari- missed from his job for ap-
hail Polotsk, who has just na's behalf. plying for an exit visa.
reached Israel. Marina In Detroit, the Detroit
Gorin left for Israsel in
was bloated and dragged Committee for Soviet Je-
1972. Since that time his
wife and two children have
been waiting for permission
to emigrate. Fired from her
job more than three years
ago, Mrs. Gorin • and her
children' are destitute, and
subject to humiliation.
Mrs. Gorin is a mathema-
tician and physicist. Letters
in her behalf may be sent to
Andrei Verein, Head of
OVIR, Ogarev ul. 6, Moscow,
USSR, or to Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin, Em-
bassy of the USSR, 1125
16th St., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Canada Controversy on Admitting PLO to Parley
OTTAWA — A contro-
versy has arisen surround-
ing the Canadian govern-
ment's dilemma whether or
not to admit representatives
of the Palestine Liberation
Organization to an interna-
tional conference on crime
prevention and penal serv-
ices slated Sept. 1 and 2 in
Toronto.
The government's prob-
lem began when the United
Nations issued an invitation
to the PLO to participate.
Although protests are run-
ning high against the ad-
mission of the PLO into
Canada, the government
said that a refusal to admit
the PLO delegates may be
viewed as an affront.
Canadian immigration
rules forbid the entry of ter-
rorists, and this applies to
the PLO. However, an ex-
ception was made last week
to allow a member of the
PLO to attend a meeting in
Toronto of the Canadian
Arab Federation, a private
group.
Repercussions from a
Canadian refusal to admit
the delegation could seri-
ously damage Canada's
relations with developing
countries and might deter
the participation of some
countries in the Toronto
gathering and in future
gatherings, the New York
Times reported.
Premier William Davis of
Ontario, protesting the ad-
mittance of the PLO delega-
tion in a letter to Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Tru-
deau, declared the "gov-
ernment and people of On-
tario would consider the
delegation's presence an af-
front and a provocation."
Meanwhile, it was re-
ported that Arab oil sheikhs
invested $1.5 billion in Can-
ada during 1974, mainly in
Canadian state or provincial
bonds or short term bank
deposits. But no Canadian
enterprise has been taken
over by Arab interests so
far, according to a report in
the newspaper, La Presse.
The report stated that
Kuwait has bought $400
million worth of Quebec
bonds alone and has in-
vested important sums in
British Columbia and New-
foundland. Other unidenti-
fied Arab interests have of-
fered a $400 million loan to
the province of Saskatche-
wan.
The recession in Canada
and in the Western mar-
kets generally, has obliged
Canadian banks, five of
which have opened
branches in Arab coun-
tries in the Middle East, to
reject offers of short term
Arab investments, La
Presse said.
Canadian bankers are re-
ported to be interested in 20
year long-term investments
in Canada. "There is no
scarcity of money for short
term loans in our banks and
there is no need to go look
for such money to the Ar-
abs," an important Cana-
dian banker who asked to
remain anonymous told La
Presse.
He said that "If banks
have not gone any further
than opening branches in
the Middle East, big Cana-
dian companies like Alcan,
Bell Canada, and Power
Corp. are testing grounds
for big loans in Arab capi-
tals."
In Montreal, the national
executive of the Canadian
Zionist Federation decided
to hold its next tri-annual
national convention in Jeru-
salem in February 1976.
The national executive
also announced the crea-
tion of the CZF college for
teacher-training in Israel
which will be opened in
September 1976. Jewish
young men and women
from Canada will journey
to Israel for teacher-train-
ing and then return to
Canada to teach in local
Jewish schools across the
country.
Philip Givens, president
of the CZF, informed the
meeting that preparations
are under way to mobilize
public opinion against the
appearance of the Palestine
Liberation Organization at
the interna.tianal conference
on crime.
Rabin Names Gen. Sharon Adviser
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin ap-
pointed former Likud leader
Gen. (Res) Ariel Sharon as
his special adviser on secu-
rity matters, a civilian post
with potentially far-reach-
ing influence.
The premier acted on his
prerogative to appoint ad-
visers without prior Cabinet
approval. His move was ap-
parently intended to end the
mounting public debate over
the fitness of the controver-
sial Yom Kippur War hero
to occupy a sensitive posi-
tion within the government
whose policies he has sev-
erely criticized.
Rabin did not indicate
when Sharon would assume
his new post nor did he
make it clear what his res-
ponsibilities would be. The
premier said that the defini-
tion of the new offic&would
be determined "after coordi-
nation with other elements
involved."
Sharon, who resigned
his Knesset seat earlier
this year to return to the
army, will continue to re-
tain his senior post in the
reserves. But according to
Israel's civil service regu-
lations his political activi-
ties will be severely lim-
ited as long as he is a
"state employe."
Sharon's appointment as
Rabin's security adviser was
seen here as the first step
toward implementing the
Agranat Committee's rec-
ommendation for the crea-
tion of a National Security
Council.
Rabin had previously
named another controver-
sial general, Rehavim Zeevi,
as his adviser on intelligence ,
matters. He reportedly con-
sidered Sharon's appoint-
ment a matter of some ur-
gency because of possible
military problems that may
arise this summer.
Rabin acted despite ad-
vice from his Defense Minis-
ter, Shimon Peres, to delay
Sharon's appointment. The
newspaper Al Hamishmar
reported that Peres feared
that the appointment would
place Chief of Staff Gen.
Mordechai Gur in an unten-
able position because
Sharon would become, in
effect, Gur's superior.
ARIEL SHARON
Haaretz said the ap-
pointment also under-
mined the position of the
defense minister in the
eyes of the other ministers
and among all the commis-
sioned officers.
Sharon made no secret of
the fact that he considered
himself the most suitable
candidate for chief of staff
after the Yom Kippur War
and the resignation of Chief
of Staff Gen. David Elazar
whose conduct of the war
was criticized by the
Agranat panel in its first in-
terim report.
After leaving the Knesset,
Sharon reportedly sought
the post of deputy chief of
staff but this was blocked
by Gen. Gur who vowed that
as long as he was in com-
mand of the armed forces,
Sharon would not be given
that post . .
Sharon, whose break
through Egyptian lines to
establish an Israeli salient
on the West Bank of the
Suez Canal was regarded as
the most brilliant Israeli
military maneuver of the
Yom Kippur War, incurred
the wrath of many of his
colleagues by his outspoken
criticism of the Israeli high
command. Gen. Sharon is
the founding father of
Likud.
Immigration to Israel Down
JERUSALEM — Immi- — the first held since the
gration to Israel is down 50 Rabin Government took
percent this year compared over a year ago — was at-
with last year. This figure tended by 13 ministers
was reported by Jewish apart from the premier and
Agency Chairman Pinhas an equal number of agency
Sapir at a meeting of the officials.
government-agency" joint
Among the proposals
coordinating committee" raised:
the establishment
chaired by Premier Yitzhak of
a faculty of "absorption
Rabin.
studies" in one of the univ-
The total figure for Janu- ersities.
ary to May inclusive is ar-
ound 6,000 (half of them No decisions were taken
Soviets) compared to 12,000 during the four-hour session
(with over 7,000 of them — but Rabin said he wanted
Soviets) in the same period the committee to meet again
last year. on his return from Wash-
The committee meeting ington later this month.