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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