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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 January 9, 1976
Soviet Repression Harsher Since Helsinki Accord
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MARION GASPAS .
Disruption of the Hel-
sinki agreements for freer
immigration and the
USSR's resort to the UN ob-
scenities in treating Jewish
applicants for visas to Israel
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sian anti-Jewish policies.
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The New York Times re-
Happiness is singlemind- ported Saturday that since
edness.
the Helsinki agreement was
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signed in August not a sin-
gle prominent applicant in
Moscow has been reported
to have been allowed to
leave.
The Russians are also us-
ing propaganda statements
from Jewish returnees to
Russia who are attacking
both Israel and American
Jewries. The Times men-
tioned a Novosti press re-
lease which reported Rus-
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and other cultural -non-pol-
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Soviet Jews.
The drive is part of a na-
tional program, Right to
Identify, a project to provide
cultural materials through
the mails for Soviet Jews,
and to test the final act of
the Helsinki Conference on
European Security and
`Cooperation signed last
year.
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co-sponsored by the Union
of Councils for Soviet Jews
and the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry:
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According to Ms. Weiss-
sian Jews living in Brooklyn President have done and
man,
the daughter learned
have requested to return to continue to do great harm.
the USSR after being We categorically protest of her mother)s condition
beaten by "racist Zionist against having our destin- from her sister in Moscow
thugs" after complaining ies and those of our chil- who only recently was al-
dren sacrificed to the polit- lowed to visit Mrs. Leikina
about life in the U.S.
ical interests of certain for the first time since her
The-Jewish News has
incarceration.
received a similar release
circles."
At the same time, Jewish
The daughter ,reported
via the Russian Embassy
in Washington which re- sources in the Soviet Union that her mother's weight
ported on a Russian Jew- reported on a crackdown on was down to 100 , pounds,
ish couple who left Israel Jewish activists there by the that she was wracked by
authorities, with more than despair and wanted only to'
to go back to Russia.
The couple allege, in the 100 homes raided by KGB die. The medical commit-
press release, that as Rus- men in Moscow alone in the tee at the mental institu-
sian Jews in Israel they past month of Jews linked tion which is supposed to
were discriminated against to the publications, "Jews in consider her case will not
like the "Sephardi." The the USSR" and "Tarbut — meet for another seven
press release states this The Cultural Report."
months.
doomed the man to physical
These sources report that
Mrs. Leikina was given an
labor "such as cleaning rub- the homes of four of those indeterminate sentence
bish from the streets, scrub- most prominently con- after conviction at a secret
bing floors, and carrying nected with these two publi- trial for allegedly smug-
heavy loads."
cations were raided by the gling a violin out of the So-
The press release claims KGB shortly after the de- viet Union. The charge was
that other immigrants were. parture from the Soviet false, the court sat in cam-
suffering, and that this cou- Union of the Chief Rabbi of era and the accused was not
ple left Israel illegally on an the British Commonwealth, permitted -to attend her own
Italian ship.
Immanuel Jacobovits on trial, Ms. Weissman said.
According to the New Dec. 24. He had been as-
At the- same time, it was
York Times, the European sured by top Soviet officials
security meeting in Helsinki that efforts would be made learned that Dr: Anna Ber-
toughened the Soviet pos- to ensure Jewish cultural kun, a noted Soviet Jewish
pediatrician from Orens-
ture. Western observers cite life in the USSR.
the case of Dr. Benjamin
These Jewish sources also berg, has been given permis-
Levich, a physical chemist report that a . number of ac- sion to emigrate to Israel.
who was denied permission tivists were detained by So- The New York Medical
to emigrate because author- viet police in Moscow, also Committee on Soviet Jewry
ities claimed he had access on the day of Jacobovits' said Dr. Berkun and her
departure, after they held a 16-year-old son and invalid
to state secrets.
Dr. Leirich was told dur- quiet demonstration outside sister, had been arbitrarily
ing President Nixon's 1974 the Lenin Library in the denied permission for al-
visit to Russia that the Soviet capital. They stood in most two years.
Efforts on behalf of Dr.
secrets he was once ex- silence for 10 minutes in
posed to were now obso- -tribute to those sentenced to Berkun and her family in-
lete, and . that he could prison five years ago in the cluded their adoption by
New York area doctors, the
leave within a year after first Leningrad trial.
his two sons departed for
They issued a statement publication of her petitions
Israel. Now he has been to the western press urg- and vigorous appeals for the
told again that the secu- ing support against the family's freedom. The medi-
rity problem did not apply repression of Jewish cul- cal committee is an affiliate
to him, indicating that his ture in the Soviet 'Union of the Greater New York
long wait is arbitrary.
and against attempts to Conference on Soviet Jewry.
The Times cited the drop- frighten the applicants for
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not reflect family re-unifi- ported that a Soviet Jewish
woman, Meta Leikina, has
cation.
Meanwhile, a group of been held incommunicado
Soviet Jews said that Presi- for eight months in a men-
dent Ford has harmed pros- tal institution in Kazan in
pects for a more liberal So- the Soviet Tartar Republic
viet emigration policy with and is suffering from mal-
his criticism of congres- nutrition and severe mental
Put The Excitement
sional efforts to get it eased. depression, according to in-
Of A
President Ford said in a formation reaching her
television interview earlier daughter, Anna Rosnov-
this week that efforts to tie skaya, who lives in Israel.
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improved trading status for
Details of the case were
the Soviet Union to freer - reported by Inez Weissman,
call 646-4759
emigration had damaged president of the Long Island
the chances of many to emi- Committee for Soviet Je-
grate.
wry.
The activists said that
such statements by Ford
are "taken in the USSR as
an encouragement for per-
secutions and a hardening
of the emigration policy.
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Israel Denies
Dinitz Rumors
* JERUSALEM — Rumors
that Israeli ambassador to
the U.S.. Sirnha Dinitz was
to be replaced in March at
the end of his three-year
assignment in the U.S. by
Gen. David Elazar have
been denied by the Israeli
government.
Gen. Elazar was chief of
staff of the Israel Army
during the 1973 Yom Kippur
War.
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