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U.S. Blasts Arrests of Soviet Jewish Scholars

WASHINGTON (JTA)
— -The arrest in Moscow
Tuesday of at least six of
the Jewish organizers of
the Jewish cultural sym-
posium that was
scheduled to begin Tues-
day and end Thursday
was criticized by the U.S.
government as inconsis-
tent with the Helsinki ac-
cords.
According to reports

from Moscow, the or-
ganizers were arrested as
they left their homes on
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symposium's chairman,
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Leonid Volvovsky, Vla-
dimir Prestin and Arkady
Mai.
At the same time, none
of the foreign scholars
who had been scheduled
to participate in the sym-
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association to attend' the
symposium.
On Dec. 15, the day of
the commission's hearing
on the association's pro-
test, the State Depart-
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ment took up with the
Soviet Embassy the mat-
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ter of the rejection of the
visas for the association
representatives and four
other members who had
sought to present papers
at the symposium.
save up to
Two days after the
hearing, the department
raised the level of its pro-
test to the Soviet Union.
The Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for
European Affairs, Jack
Armitage, discussed the
visa rejections with the
immediate subordinates
to Soviet Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin.
Baruch Levine, profes-
sor of-Ancient Near East-
ern Languages at New
York University, and a
former' president of the
Association; Brandeis
University sociology pro-
fessor Marshall Sklare
and history professor
Henry Feingold of City
University of New York,
who appeared before the
commission chaired by
Rep. Dante Fascell (D.-
Fla.), were told by Fascell
that the full commission,
which comprises sena-
tors, representatives and
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the Helsinki accord, will
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venes next month as a
part . of its record on
Soviet compliance.
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A. Henry Pokart
other members of Con-
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gress were refused Soviet
visas last month in their
Edward C. Neubacher, Jr. M.I.P.D.
attempt to visit the USSR.
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resented in Moscow by
Jewish studies professor
Irving Greenberg of
205-217 Pierce Street
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STUDIO of INTEPOK,

Prof. Jacob Neusner;
Rabbi Harold Schulweiss,
a professor at the Univer-
sity of Southern Califor-
nia; Prof. Charles Lieb-
man of the Jewish
Theological Seminary;
Brandeis Prof. Leon Jick;
Eli Wiesel, a French citi-
zen; and Columbia Uni-
versity profssor Joshua
Herzog, a Canadian.
In addition they noted
that Joshua Fishman, a
Yeshiva University pro-
fessor of linguistics, has
been refused a visa for a
general linguistics con-
ference in the Soviet Un-
ion. As a result, a group of
U.S. colleges refused to
send representatives to it
in opposition to such dis-
crimination.
The Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry reported
in New York that at least
60 Moscow Jews and 60
from other Soviet cities
were detained to prevent
them from participating in
the symposium, according
to reports reaching the
SSSJ and the Union of
Councils for Soviet Jews.
After seven papers
were presented, those
present voted to close the
symposium, which its or-
ganizers had hoped would
last for three days, ac-
cording to the SSSJ.
Three attorneys from
Norfolk, Va. who had
come to participate were
expelled from the USSR,
it was reported. In addi-
tion, 15 more phones of
Jewish activists were dis-
connected.
In a related develop-
ment, four college presi-
dents led an academic
conference on "The State
of Jewish Culture in the
Soviet Union" Tuesday at
the City University
Graduate Center in Man-
hattan.
The four presidents are
William McGill, Columbia
University; Norman
Lamm, Yeshiva Univer-
sity; Harold Proshansky,
CUNY Graduate Center;
and Gerson Cohen,
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America.
At the UN, Israeli Am-
bassador Chaim Herzog
submitted a petition from
92 Jews in nine Soviet
cities — including Mos-
cow, Minsk, Riga and Vilna
— protesting against the
attempts by Soviet au-
thorities to sabotage the
Jewish culture symposium
in Moscow.
In New York, the Grea-
ter New York Conference
on Soviet Jewry reported
that Naum Salensky,
whose home is the site of
the regularly held Jewish
cultural seminar in Vilna,
is being investigated by
Soviet authorities on
charges which could
mean three years impris-
onment.
His mother, dying of
cancer in Israel, has sent
numerous appeals to
Soviet authorities to be
reunited with her son.
In London, it was
learned that more than 120
Western writers from 14
countries have appealed to
the Soviet authorities for
the release of Eduard
Kuznetsov, who faces
another nine years im-
prisonment for his part in

the so-called Leningrad
hijack plot in 1970.
Kuxnetsov is the hus-
band of former Soviet
Jewish activist Sylva
Zalmanson, who was re-
leased two years ago.
Signatories from Bri-
tain include Alan Sillotoe,
Iris Murdoch, Stuart
Hampshire and David
Storey; from France,
Raymond Aron, Simone
de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul
Sartre, Eugene Ionescu
and Jean Lacouture;
from the United States,
Saul Bellow, Herman
Wouk, Bernard Malamud
and Howard Fast; and
from West Germany,
Heinrich Boell.
Meanwhile, the Soviet
human rights activist
Vladimir Bukovsky, now
in Switzerland after his
release from a Soviet
prison, is expected to visit
Israel soon. Another
Soviet dissident,
mathematician Leonid
Ployesht, arrived in Tel
Aviv with his wife and son
to visit former Jewish col-
leagues who have emig-
rated to Israel.
Ployesht, now living in
France, was certified in-
sane by Soviet authorities
and spent several years in
a mental institution. He,
was allowed to leave the
USSR after his release.
Western physicians who
examined him found his
physical condition poor as
,a result of his treatment at
the asylum but said he was
mentally sound.

It also was learned that
Soviet Jewish activists
.Boris Levitas and Ale-
xander Mizruchin and
former Prisoner of Con-
science Lazar Liubarsky
have received permission
to emigrate.

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Jewish Emigration

GENEVA (JTA) — The
International Committee
for European Emigration
reported that during
January-November, 12,-
760 Jews emigrated from
the USSR, and only 6,336
went to Israel.
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Dissident's Trial
Recorded, Printed

NEW YORK — The
transcript of "An 'Ordi-
nary' Trial in the USSR"
has been published in
Paris by the sons of Dr.
Mikhail Shtern in an ef-
fort to win their father's
release from a Soviet
prison camp.
Dr. Shtern, who was
convicted in 1974 of brib-
ery and swindling from
patients after his sons
applied to emigrate to Is-
rael, is serving eight
years at hard labor.
The transcript was sec-
retly recorded at the trial
and smuggled out of the
Soviet Union. The book is
expected to be published
in the U.S. by Urizen
Press in New York.

Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his
blood be shed, for in the
image of God He made man.
—Genesis

Israel, EEC Sign
More Protocols

BRUSSELS (JTA) —
Israeli Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon signed the
additional protocol be-
tween the European
Economic Community
(EEC) and Israel in Brus-
sels Tuesday.
The
nine-member
European Community
was scheduled to sign
additional protocols with
a number of Arab Middle
Eastern states on the
same day.
The signature with Is-
rael was originally
scheduled to take pl
Dec. 10 in Jerusalem
about the time the E
was to have signed simi-
lar protocols with Jordan,
Syria, Egypt and Leba-
non.
The signing was post-
poned after the Arab
states asked the EEC to
reconsider the time limit
for their loans. The
additional negotiations
took more time than ex-
pected, resulting in the
postponement and shift s
to Brussels.

'Argentina Bans
Anti-Zionist Book

BUENOS AIRES (JTA)
— An anti-Zionist book
authored by an outspo-
ken anti-Semite has been
banned by the Argentine
government on grounds
that it threatened secu-
rity and public order.
The ban forbids the dis-
tribution, sale or circula-
tion of "From the Zionist
Yoke to the Possible
Argentina" by Dr. Walter
Beveraggi Allende, a,
lawyer and one of the
most notorious Jew-
baiters in Argentina.
It purports to be an eco-
nomic treatise describing
the country's liberation
from dependence.
According to the gov-
ernment decree, the book,
published by Editorial
Confederacion Nacion-
alista, is intentionally
anti-social and tends to
provoke or in stigate il-
legal or criminal acts
against security and pub-
lic order.

Carter Will Act
Against Boycott

MIAMI BEACH (JTA)
— President-elect Jimmy
Carter, reaffirming a
campaign pledge to fight
the Arab boycott, told the
American Jewish Con-
gress there was "no room
in the international
arena" for "foreign d;
crimination" again
Americans "on grounds
of their race, their
religion or the countries
with which they trade."
"I deplore it and want
to work with you to end
it," Carter said in an ap-
parent reference to the
Arab boycott of Israel
and U.S. firms that trade
with Israel.
Carter's letter, ad-
dreSSed to -Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg, AJCongress
president, said he wel-
comed the organization's
recommendations about
"how foreign discrimina-
tion can be soon ended."

