THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14 June 11, 1976 Jewish Press Unit Members Harassed on Tour by Soviet Custom Officials and tapes destroyed as they left the Soviet Union at the end of the eight-day First Editorial Conference to the Soviet Union. David Henschel, a St. • Louis free-lance photogra- 100 File Folders • Heavy Weight pher who was the pool pho- Special Sale $4.50 • tographer for the AJPA on the trip, said that of the some 180 persons boarding ; 342-7800 399-8333 : the plane at Leningrad Air- port, Soviet customs offi- • NEW YORK (JTA) — Two members of the Ameri- can Jewish Press Associa- tion and a free-lance pho- tographer had their film Add 'n Type "QUALITY EDUCATION AT A REALISTIC COST" • ZELDA ROBINSON SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL BOARD VOTE MONDAY, JUNE 14 15075 LINCOLN RD., OAK PARK, LINCOLN TOWERS APTS (313) 968-1780 cials only searched the lug- gage of Joseph Samuels, publisher of the Houston Jewish Voice; Anne Shap- iro, associate editor of the Kansas City Jewish Chroni- cle and himself. Henschel said the Soviet officials destroyed negatives and erased tape recordings taken at a meeting with 35 Jewish "refusniks" in Mos- cow. The Jewish newsmen were part of a group that included members of the Overseas Press Club of America and the News- women's Club of New York. Others at the meeting with the activists in addi- tion to the three who were searched were Doris Sky, managing editor of the In- termountain Jewish News in Denver; and Milton Mov- itz, an amateur photogra- pher from St. Louis. They were not searched and re- turned with tape and film, according to Henschel. Henschel noted that many of the non-Jewish journalists after viewing the search at Leningrad Airport said they now realized for the first time the ordeal of Soviet Jews. Robert A. Cohn, editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light and president of the AJPA, said the AJPA is investigat- ing these incidents as well as the last minute refusal of the Soviet Union to allow four others to join the press tour. CARS COST LESS SERVICE IS BEST AT DEXTER CHEVROLET YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DEALER FOR 45 YEARS. 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The diary says Altman was chained and forcibly shaved. As punishment, he was denied permission to receive visitors. He went on a hun- According to the diary, many Jews were put in soli- tary confinement for stag- ing hunger strikes in protest against severe punishment ordered by the camp com- mandant. Meanwhile, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry has welcomed the signing On his release from con- finement on Sept. 18, he was immediately put back in solitary for another 15 days. Fellow prisoners demonstrated in protest and threatened to react even more violently unless a petition they addressed A copy of the diary, type- to President Nikolai Pod- written in Russian on white paper, has reached Kibutz gorny of the Supreme So- Yagur which has adopted viet was delivered. The Altman as an honorary.. petition demanded better conditions and a cessation member. of harsh punishment at the According to the writer, camp. by ,President Ford of the Fenwick-Case bill which provides for a U.S. commis- sion to monitor the 1975 Helsinki pact, especially its human rights provisions. The accord calls on the signatory countries, which include the Soviet Union, to observe international cus- toms on the re-unification of families and other as- pects that would help Soviet Jews obtain emigration vi- sas to join their families abroad. The measure was spon- sored by Sen. Clifford Case and Rep. Millicent Fenwick, both New Jersey Rep' cans. In a related development, Herbert Bernstein, execu- tive director of the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) has reported that more than 2,- 000 Russian Jewish immi- grants now at a transit cen- ter in Ostia, a suburb of Rome, will soon begin arriv- ing in the United States. MEN LOSE Israeli Arab Leaders Call For Creation of `Eli-National State' JERUSALEM (JTA) A group of Israeli Arab lead- ers appeared to be having second thoughts June 8 on a memorandum they drafted for Premier Yitzhak Rabin which, in effect, calls for recognition of a bi-national state in Israel. The text of the memoran- dum, leaked to the press Monday, engendered an an- gry public reaction inas- much as it challenged the Zionist concept of Israel as a Jewish state with an Arab minority. Massab Kassis, Mayor of Meiliyah Village in Galilee, a spokesman for the group, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the memo would be held up. He insisted, however, that this did not mean the text would be altered. "The memo was prepared by three people and we simply wanted to discuss the mat- ter again," he said. Other Arab notables conceded that `Iran Jews Pledge to Support Israel' WEIGHT with Mr. T.O.P.S. the original language may have been too strong, "but so was Rabin's disregard for our national distinctive- ness," they said. Non-Profit Self-Help eves. 339-2314 545-9832 weds. 7-9 p.m. The group, consisting of Arab Mayors and town council members met with the premier three weeks ago to discuss the prob- lems of Israel's Arab mi- nority. They voiced dis- pleasure afterwards with Rabin's description of the Arabs as a distinctive cul- ture and religious without mentioning any national significance. The group also warned that it will oppose the ex- propriation of "any centime- ter" of Arab land in Galilee, the Negev or the so-called "triangle" east of the coastal plain. Apart from the Gali- lee project, there are no known plans for expropria- tion in any of these areas. 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