THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 6 Friday, August 8, 1975 Increase in USSR's Visa Tax Hurts Emigration (Continued from Page 1) said this was being done by allowing reunion of families '>< XXXXXXXXXXX-X )< ,. ( FOUND IN ,,,, ,. x x DETROIT THE LOST ART x X. OF TAILORING X Where? At Steve Petix, the I home of the immaculate fit in custom, tailored-to- measure or quality brand X clothing. X ,K $ 7teve:Th' . :‘ Is, . • s: LOT ),F.R :. 2 Open 9-6 dally (to 5 30 Sat ) V 9-9 Tnurs & Fri —, Ample parking,< Credit Lards accepted K & 14 Rule X A XXXXXXXXXXXXX X 31455 SOUTHFIELD ROAD / 645-5560 , , Be!, een 13 of Soviet Jews with their relations-in Israel and by treating every application for exit "in a positive spirit." He stressed that it could not mean free emigration for all Soviet citizens, whether Jew or non-Jew. Soviet Jewish activists said in Moscow, according to the report, that the fact that the ovir chief had chosen to speak to Lerner so quickly after the Helsinki document had been signed did not, in itself, portend a change in the position of Soviet Jews. But the activists added that it did mean that the activist group is now accepted by Soviet authorities, even though the group may not Over 45 Years Of Moving Experience POTTER MOVING & STORAGE CO. NUMBER 0 ALLIED VAN LINES AGENT IN MICHIGAN 1300 N. Campbell ROYAL OAK 541-3310 2253 Cole BIRMINGHAM 644-4612 AWED VAN UNES be officially acknowledged. A national conference on Soviet Jewry will be spon- sored here in November by the Board of Deputies. It also was reported that the/demonstration last week in Helsinki by the Interna- tional Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry achieved its goal of focusing unprece- dented attention on the plight of Soviet Jewry, one of the demonstrators said. Mrs. Doreen Gainsford, one of the driving forces in the campaign for Soviet Je- wry in Britain, said that the Russians will now have to improve the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and that the one matter that was certain was that Soviet Jews would learn of the Hel- sinki protest and that it would greatly encourage them in their struggle. Nine women, including Mrs. Gainsford, were ar- rested near the U.S. Em- bassy by Finnish police, but they were treated well and released without charges, ' she said. In New York, in a dra- matic test of the Soviet Union's . compliance with the spirit of detente and in- ternational telecommuni- cations, a group of well- known New Yorkers tried to place calls to Jewish activists in the USSR. But only three of the 25 calls went through. The event, which was sponsored by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, was also aimed at the meeting be- tween President Ford and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Put your cash to work .. . order your 1976 Oldsmobile Today! GOOD SELECTION OF 1975's STILL AVAILABLE OLDSMOBILE I\C. 28000 TELEGRAPH at Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. 48076 354-3300 BUY or LEASE at the European Security Conference in Helsinki. Various excuses were given by Soviet operators why the calls did not get through. All of the persons called were notified in ad- vance, according to the GNYCSJ. In Washington, Rep. Ed- ward Mezvinsky (D.-Iowa) and Rep. Elizabeth Holtz- man (D.-N.Y.) called on President. Ford to obtain a firm Soviet commitment on human rights at the summit meeting of the European Se- curity Conference in Hel- sinki. In a resolution intro- duced in the House, the lawmakers asked the President to "seek specific guarantees and commit- ments for the unhampered movement of persons, in- formation and ideas . . . before signing or other- wise agreeing to any dec- laration or other state- ment of principles produced by the confer- ence." Joining Mezvinsky and Holtzman in the resolution and letter to Ford were Reps. Joshua Eilberg (D.- Pa.), Hamilton Fish, Jr. (R.- N.Y.) and Christopher J. Dodd (D.-Conn.). The five Representatives — all mem- bers of the House Judiciary Committee — recently trav- eled together to the Soviet Union to investigate free- dom of emigration in that country. At the same time, a group of former Soviet Jews now living in Israel has written an open letter to President Ford and to Soviet Com- munist Party Secretary, Leonid Brezhnev on behalf of a Soviet Jewish couple, Aba Stolyar and Gita Ra- zovskaya. The elderly couple_ had exit visas to Israel and had boarded the Moscow-Vienna plane on June 19, 1975, when Soviet authorities con- fiscated their visas and for- cibly turned them back, claiming that there "had been a mistake." peal to the U.S. Senators worker, bought plane tick- who were in the Soviet ets for himself and his Union at the time of the ar- 12-year-old son in order to .rest, it was reported by the fly to Moscow and Lenin- National Conference on So :- grad on the first day of his viet Jewry. vacation, July 2. On July. On July 2, Roitburd was 1, a KGB agent warned about to leave Odessa for him not to leave Odessa, Moscow, when KGB plain- but Roitburd rejected this clothesmen arrested him on illegal demand and went to charges of "resisting ar- the airport with his son rest." In their appeal, issued and his/wife, who saw in Moscow and released them off. later by the NCSJ, the activ- They were not allowed to ists ask the Senators to pay board the plane. "Right - • "special attention to this front of his wife and s. case" and to "take steps men in civilian dress pulled pressing your opinion about him by the hair to a local it as the incident took place militia office," the appeal during your stay in the stated. USSR, and was, apparently, His wife was not allowed connected with your visit to.come into the office. The there." next day she was told by the The appeal noted that militia that a case had been Roitburd, an engineer who opened against her husband has had to work as a metal "for' resisting arrest." * * * Soviet Jews' English Contact Visiting in Detroit This Week Rae Sharfman and Ida Joyrich of the Detroit Com- mittee for Soviet Jewry hosted English school- teacher Michael Sherbourne ,earlier this week during his three-week "holiday" in the U.S. Sherbourne has made ap- proximately 3,500 telephone calls to Soviet Jews during the past five years, with the costs defrayed by volunteer donations. He told The Jewish News that Soviet authorities have made it more difficult for outside calls to be put through, but that he still makes up to 15 calls per week. "I learned Russian 20 years ago, on a bet,!" Sher- bourne said, "but didn't use the language until five years ago when I was asked to make a call. "After speaking to one person, and hearing his joy at an outside contact, you might say I was hooked." Sherbourne coordinates the information he gains with the editor of "Jews in Gita worked on the • th.. USSR," which is pub- chemistry of natural -fos- lished in England. He be- sils at the Scientific Chem- came friends with Mrs. Joy- ical Institute. Although rich and Mrs. Sharfman she had been on pension through telephone calls since 1972, her work has made world-wide in behalf of Soviet Jews. just been declared "clas- sified." He said that the pressure The group of Israelis who of telephone calls has alle- sent the appeal took the oc- viated the persecution of casion of the European Se- some activists at times, but curity Conference to urge said the morale effect of the the two world leaders to calls is their major benefit. save the Stolyar family "as Sherbourne said that in you are at present preparing recent weeks Soviet offi- to save millions of people cials have closed six of the from the dreadful horrors of 12 telephone lines into war and despotism." Moscow, and restricted In New York, following the automatic lines. Calls the arrest of long-term are taking much longer to "refusenik," Lev Roitburd, a place, he said, and calls group of 16 Soviet Jewish placed through the postal activists addressed an ap- system, where the Soviet Jew is instructed via tele- gram to be at the post of- fice at a certain time to receive a call, are no longer going through. 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