THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
December S, 1975 39
Senators Urge Brezhnev to Allow Sakharov to Receive Nobel Prize
WASHINGTON — Thir-
ty-seven Senators, stressing
Soviet obligations under the
Helsinki accords, have ca-
bled Secretary Leonid
Brezhnev urging him to
honor Dr. Andrei Sakhar-
ov's request to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize in person
in Oslo this month.
The broadly bipartisan
Senate effort on behalf of
Sakharov was initiated by
Senator Henry M. Jackson
with Senators Russell B.
Long, Bob Packwood, Wil-
liam Proxmire, James L.
Buckley, John 0. Pastore,
Jacob K. Javits, Walter F.
pndale, and Richard S.
weiker. One of the sig-
rs was Philip Hart of
Michigan.
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Meanwhile, Sakharov
said his wife, now in Italy,
will accept his $140,000
Nobel Peace Prize for him,
and requested that Nor-
way send formal invita-
tions to the ceremony to
four dissident friends in
Russia. Sakharov said he
has not lost hope Soviet
authorities might reconsi-
der their refusal to let him
out of the country for the
award ceremony next
week.
It was reported, however,
that permission has been
granted for Leonid V. Kan-
torovich, co-winner of the
Nobel Prize for economics,
to go to Stockholm for the
award ceremonies.
In New York it was
learned that Soviet activist
Boris Levitas, who was or-
dered to appear Nov. 22 be-
fore a medical committee of
his draft board in Kiev,
failed to appear and it is
feared he will be arrested
and charged with "draft
evasion," according to re-
ports reaching the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
His parents, brother and
sister emigrated to Israel in
1973.
Levitas applied for an
exit visa in January. Con-
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sidered an excellent stu-
dent at the Building Insti-
tute in Kiev, he was
suddenly given poor marks
and was expelled from the
Institute upon his applica-
tion to emigrate.
Levitas' family is con-
vinced that he is being con-
scripted to frighten off
other Jews in Kiev from
applying, and that the au-
thorities are taking revenge
upon him for wanting to
leave the Soviet Union, the
NCSJ reported.
Meanwhile, Naum Al-
shansky, a Soviet Jew who
earned one of the USSR's
highest awards for service
in World War II, will be
guest speaker at a luncheon
that will be a highlight of a
major "Leadership Confer-
ence" to be sponsored by the
Greater New York Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry Sun-
day at the Park Avenue
Synagogue.
The conference chairman,
* *
Kings County District At-
torney Eugene Gold, said
the parley will take a hard,
close look, at the directions
and goals of the Soviet Je-
wry movement against the
backdrop of the UN General
Assembly anti-Zionist reso-
lution and the stepped up
persecution of Jews in the
Soviet Union.
Alshansky, who at-
tabled the rank_ of colonel
in 26 years of military
service, was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner
in World War II. In April,
1971, he and his wife,
Klara, and their two chil-
dren applied to emigrate to
Israel. He was stripped of
his rank and deprived of
his officer's pension imme-
diately following his appli-
cation.
Authorities began a con-
certed campaign of harass-
ment aimed at Alshansky
and his colleagues Capt.
Genadoy Kipnis and Col.
*
Soviet Jew's Memoirs Printed
With Aid of Ann Arbor _Couple
An Ann Arbor couple has
licensed the publication in
translation of the smuggled
memoirs of a leading Soviet
Jewish intellectual, Lev Ko-
pelev.
The couple, Carl and El-
lendea Proffer, whose Rus-
sian language publishing
house, Ardis, has licensed
the publication of Kopelev's
memoirs in 10 countries, are
friends of Kopelev. His
book, "To Be Preserved For-
ever," will be published in
the U.S. by J. B. Lippincott
Co. The title refers to the of-
ficial stamp used in the So-
viet Union for material on
file in cases involving
"crimes against the state."
"To Be Preserved For-
ever" is the story of a Com-
munist intellectural leader
who lived for the Party from
his youth. Apart from one
flirtation with "opposi-
tionism," there was no more
fluent or dedicated expo-
nent of the Party line, no
one more ambitious to win
recognition within the appa-
ratus he served so fever-
ently.
.
A major in army intel-
ligence at the end of World
War II, Kopelev was sent
into Germany. As a wit-
ness of looting, rape and
wanton destruction by the
conquering Russian Army,
Kopelev struggled to infla-
ence his colleagues to stop
the horrors committed by
their own troops.
His colleagues were hos-
tile to his pleas, and Kopelev
was arrested in 1945 and
charged with "anti-Soviet
agitation .. .. dissemination
of slander in time of war
. . . bourgeois humanism."
That was the beginning of a
series of arrests, trials and
imprisonments for Kopelev.
Throughout his persecu-
tion by state security agen-
cies, he struggled to pre-
serve his faith in the Party
and in the course of Soviet
justice. The events he wit-
nessed outraged his Social-
ist conscience, and he could
find no justification for
them anywhere in Marxist -
';
It i t'
. 1 k
thought. A long process of
realization and change even-
tually led to his decision to
write and publish this book.
Kopelev is living in Mos-
cow with his wife, Raisa
Orlova (a specialist in
American literature).
Kopelev was one of the
most prominent figures in
the civil rights movement in
the USSR in the 1960s and
1970s. He figured in the de-
fense of Sinyaysky and Dan-
iel and was an outspoken de-
fender of Lydia
Chukovskaya, Medvedaev
and Aleksandr Solzhenit-
syn. He also was instrumen-
tal in introducing to Rus-
sian readers the works of
American writers such as
William Faulkner, Dorothy
Parker and Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
Army Position
Has 5 Candidates
TEL AVIV — (ZINS) —
According to military ex-
perts the Chief-of-Staff of
the Israeli Army enjoyed
great prestige and recogni-
tion after the Six Day War;
but since the Yom Kippur
War his position declined
and has been weakened.
Criticism is heard not
only on the governmental
level but among the officers
who favor Arik Sharon and
should like to see him re-
place General Mordecai Gur
who completes his term of
duty at the end of 1976.
Competition for the post has
already begun.
According to the experts
there are two alternatives:
to appoint someone from
the Reserve—Generals-
such as Arik Sharon. or Is-
rael Tal — or to select a ge-
neral from active-service
such as Herzl Shapir, Yeku-
tiel Adas or Raphael Etan.
Premier Rabin favors the
first alternative while Shi-
mon Peres, Minister of De-
fense, favors the second.
The problem will be resolved
in the middle of next year.
Efim Davidovich, all of expressing his protest at
Minsk. This campaign cul- official refusals to allow
minated in threats of a ma- him to emigrate to Israel.
jor trial in May, 1973. More The gesture was made at
than 100 Jewish activists the reception rooms of the
were allegedly implicated in Supreme Soviet Presidium
the trial, which was sus- in Moscow.
pended only after publicity
This -ear, the Alshansky
in the West drew loud pro- family was finally permit-
tests against the planned ted to emigrate to Israel,
persecution.
where they now reside. He
Kipnis was permitted to is touring the United States
emigrate after eight months under the sponsorship of the
in prison. Awaiting trial, National Conference on So-
Alshansky and DavidoviCh viet Jewry.
were detained and kept un-
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matic gesture, Alshansky
formally renounced his
Soviet citizenship and
handed back his medals,
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