22 Friday, January 28, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Zionist Head Urges Aid for Soviet Jewish 'Dropouts'
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Dr. Judah J. Shapiro,
president of the National
Committee for Labor Is-
rael and the Labor
Zionist Alliance, told the
American ORT Federa-
tion annual conference
meeting last weekend
that aid must be given to
Soviet Jews who leave the
USSR but decide not to go
to Israel.
"We are dealing with an
ancient Jewish tradition,
the ransoming of hos-
tages, and that aid must
be given to 'dropouts' on
the basis of simple
humanitarian obliga-
tions to the emigrants no
'matter where they choose
to migrate after they
have left the Soviet Un-
Shapiro declared.
He said that "no gov-
ernment, no organization
and no individual should
dictate the decisions of
the individual with re-
spect to his choice of liv-
ing circumstances and
prospects."
He added that although
Israel is justified in re-
garding the existence of an
obligation for Soviet Jews
with an Israeli visa to go to
Israel, Shapiro contended
that "over and above the
legality and tithe moral
commitment, human mig-
ration remains a personal
act with the deepest impli-
cations for the-individual."
The delegates adopted
a resolution on Soviet
Jewry which expressed
"profound concern" for
their problems whether
they were still living in
the USSR or whether
they were in the process
of resettlement.
The resolution called
for "freedom of Soviet
Jews to migrate" and an
end to the harassment of
Jews who remain under
Soviet rule and requested
that they be "permitted
to exercise their constitu-
tional rights to live in,
that country as Jews."
Meanwhile from Os?b,
Norway, it was reported
that Andrei Sakharov,
the Soviet dissident and
winner of the 1975 Nobel
Peace Prize, strongly
condemned "acts of ter-
ror" by Jewish extremists
against Soviet diplomatic
missions and other
targets in the United
States and Western
European countries.
Sakharov, who has
championed the Jewish
struggle for emigration
and civil rights in the
Soviet Union, wrote in the
Norwegian magazine Nye
Alle Menn, "By commit-
ting acts of terror, these
people in reality harm
both Soviet Jews' and the
struggle for human rights,
which in principle and
consequence is concen-
trated on non-violent
methods."
Sakharov said that he
was -"most seriously dis-
turbed" during the past
year by the spread of in-
ternational terrorism.
"I cannot but mention
the delight one felt at the
rescue operation by IS-
raeli commandos at the
Entebbe airport in
Uganda," he wrote.
manu-
Sakharov's
script, in Russian, was
brought out of the Soviet
Union by a reporter for
the Norwegian magazine
who was on assignment in
Moscow last year.
Meanwhile, Naum Sa-
lansky, the 36-year-old
Vilna physicist, who has
been under close investi-
gation on criminal charges
for more than six months,
is experiencing intensified
harassment according to
reports reaching the Na-
tional Conference on
Soviet Jewry (NCSJ).
Brooklyn District At-
torney and .NCSJ chair-
man Eugene Gold re-
marked, "It seems that
the danger to Salan\sky is
-acute. There is no doubt
that he has been singled
out for punishment by the
Soviet authorities be-
cause of his activities as
an organizer of the semi-
nar in Vilnius and allow-
ing lectures to take -place
in his home."
A few weeks ago, mem-
bers of the seminar were
told to testify that the
seminar was engaged in
anti-Soviet activities so
that they would be 'al-
lowed to emigrate.
- Salansky reported that
life for him has become a
"nightmare. Even letters
from my mother are in-
terpreted as subversive
material."
Gold said, "The file
against Salansky report-
edly consists of appeals
from his mother in Israel
to various Soviet Govern-
ment anti Party officials
and institutions.
"According to Soviet
law he could be charged
with slandering the in-
ternal policies of the
USSR and as the soviet
law code days, 'the mali-
cious dissemination of
lies and slanders against
the Soviet state.'
" "This offense is pun-
ishable by up to three
years detention."
'Further reports indi-
cate that a Soviet- court
- will take up soon the ap-
peal for Amner Zavurov,
a 26-year-old Uzbek Jew
who has been sentenced
to three years in prison,
the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet
Jewry has learned. -
Zavurov was sentenced
Jan. 13 for parasitism,
hooliganism and lacking
internal identity papers.
According to GNYCSJ,
Zavurov, his brother
Amnon, their wives and
children had obtained
visas to emigrate to Is-
rael in October, 1975, but
a bureaucratic foul-up
prevented 'them from
leaying before the visas
expired.
Their exit visas were
voided and the families
were without internal
documents which they
needed for employment
or medical treatment
when Amnon Zavorov's
wife gave birth a few
months ago.
.
—
A Jew, Charles A.
Levine, was the first
flight passenger over the
Atlantic. In 1927 he
travelled 3,903 miles — a
world record — from New
York to Eisleben, Ger-
many.
Following word of the
sentencing, thousands' of
telegrams have,been sent
by New Yorkers., urging
Zavurov's release and
that - permission be
granted to him and his
family to emigrate.
Robert Abrams, GNYSJ
chairman, declared that
"contrary to international
law, the Zavurov family
has been effectively re-
fused permission to emi-
grate.
"That they were origi-
nally granted exit visas-
indicated that even the
Soviet Union had recog-
nized there were no legal
impediments to their
leaving the Soviet Un-
ion." •
In Washington, the
Jewish Community
Council of Greater
Washington is urging
protests to the Soviet
Locally, the sisterhood
government and Soviet Semitism in one of its•
Ambassador Anatoly most vicious forms; this, of Cong. Shaarey Zedek
Dobrynin over Zavurov's despite the fact that sent five cables to Soviet
anti-Semitism in the government officials pro-
sentencing.
In Los Angeles, Paul Soviet Union is against testing the arrest of
Ziffern, chairman of the the law." Zavurov.
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