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No matter what "lotku you and your bride want for your wedding, whether you have to outfit one'or one • hundred, ,Shifman's For- mal Shop has the styles, colors, accessories and quantities you need. week with exiled Russian Monday's demonstra- biologist Vladimir tions in the Soviet Union Bukovsky, who spent followed an appeal last seven years in Soviet week issued by 163 lead- Labor camps after pro- ing refuseniks who said testing the Russian inva- that the "situation in siori of Czechoslovakia in which would-be emig- 1968. rants are brought to utter Meanwhile, more than despair by being con- 60 Soviet Jewish refus- stantly refused —quite il- niks converged Monday legally — for many years, on the Presidium in Mos- can no longer be toler- cow and peacefully de- ated." manded to know, in writ- The text was addressed ing, why they were being to all heads of nations refused permission to which signed the Helsinki emigrate and when the Agreement, the U.S. Con- ban on their emigration gress and its Helsinki would be lifted. • Commission, and the In addition, 150 de- British Parliament, ac- monstrators in 12 other cording to the Student cities held similar pro- Struggle for Soviet Jewry tests. Soviet authorities and Union of Councils for generally rejected the pro- Soviet Jews. testors' demands, al- The signers stated that though the Ukrainian par- the Soviet practice of oral liament in Kiev told the denials of, emigration protestors they would be "without a time limit to given an answer at an un- the refusal and without specified date. any legal basis are a di- -, In New York, reaction rect violation of the spirit was immediate, the Na- and letter of the Conven- tional and Greater New ant on Civil and Political York Conference on Rights, ratified and Soviet Jewry reported. signed by the USSR in Thousands of tele- 1976. grams supporting the "We emphatically in- demonstrators were dis- sist that all those illegally patched to Soviet .offi- prevented from leaving cials. Community groups shall be quickly given affiliated with the Grea- permission; alternately, ter New York Conference they should be given for- asked every member of mal statements in writ- the New York Congres- ing with the official, legal sional delegation to corn- -reasons for refusal, and municate with Soviet stating the period of time Ambassador Anatoly the refusal_will stay in ef- Dobrynin, the State De- .feat, in accordance with partment, other Ameri- existing laws and regula- can officials, and the tions." the appeal stated. Soviet government, the Signers include Vla- deeply felt concern held dimir Slepak, Profs. Ale- by members of Congress xander.Lerner and Mark for the scores of de- Azbel, Dina Beilina and monstrators and the Ida Nudel of Moscow, thousands of Soviet Jews Felix Aronovich and Ale- they _represent. xander Yampdlsky of Leningrad, Dr. Eitan Finkelstein of Vilnius, Grigory Hess and Lev Ov- sisher from Minsk, Vla- dimir Kislik of Kiev, Yuri Berkovsky of Novosibirsk, Yaakov Gordin of Riga, the Golds- tein family of Tibilisi, and Benor Gurfel of Tallin. In a related develop- ment, the SSSJ reported that 29 U.S. Congressmen have cabled protests to Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Am- bassador Anatoly Dobry- . * * * Shifman' FORMAL SHOP LINCOLN . CENTER, Greenfield cit 101/2 Mile, LIVONIA MALL BRIGHTON MALL MACOMB MALL EASTLAND CENTER & CANTON, Ford & Sheldon Rds. U-M Symposium on Dissidence Set The Hillel Committee for Soviet Jewry at the University of Michigan is , organizing a symposium on Soviet Dissidence to be held at the Michigan Union on campus, March 27-30. Topics will include the direction and nature of the dissidence move- ment, the persecution of Jews and refusniks, and the plight of the prisoners of conscience.. The committee distri- buted 2,000 leaflets at the Feb. -10 performance in Ann- Arbor of the Lenin- grad Symphony. The leaf- lets protested persecu- tion of Jews in the Soviet Union and made special reference to "Soviet sup- pression of artistic free: dom." nin over the arrests of 10-day visit to participate Yuri Orlov and Alexander in a congress on "cultural Ginzburg of Moscow, lead- exchanges." The visit ers of the unofficial .Hel- marks one of the few sinki Agreement "watch- cases since the 1967 Six- dog committee." The Day War that Israelis committee has two Jewish have been granted visas refusitik members, Vla- to enter the Soviet Un- dimir Slepak and Anatoly i on . Sharansky, both reported • The Soviet govern- under greatly increased ment has withheld a for- KGB pressure. mal decision on whether Meanwhile, 36 U.S. it will grant Sen. Richard Senators have cautioned Stone (D-Fla.) a visa for Brezhnev that continued an official trip to the imprisonment of Amner SoViet Union, but it has Zavurov, an Uzbekistan not formally denied his Jew who sought to emig- application. rate to Israel, "will only Stone said he thinks the . cause new strain in Soviet relations with the Soviet government does not want to "confront the rest of the world." issue of human rights with The New York State a direct refusal of my v Senate unanimously pas- request." sed a resolution calling He added that "its for Zavurov's release. In other developments: equivocal way of handl- • The Canadian House ing the matter under- of Commons has unanim- scores the increasing re- violations of ously censured the Soviet ports human of rights and a se- Union for the arrest of four dissidents — Ale- vere, crackdown on dissi- xander Ginzburg, Nikolai dents in that country." Nevertheless, Stone said Rodenko, Alexy Tikhy he is encouraged by the and Yuri Orlov. The al- fact that his application most asked unprecedented mo- was not officially turned tion the Minister, • for External Affairs, Don down. Jamieson, to express Par- , • The New York Con- ference on Soviet Jewry liament's "disappoint- has established a year- ment the and incarceration deep concern" over of long series of daily pro- the -human rights ac- tests in front of the Aerflot offices in New tivists. • Spear-headed by Pur- - York. The noon-timepro- due University Bnai tests will be supported by Brith Hillel Foundation Congressmen, church, student leaders, West youth and synagogue Lafayette, Ind., became gro'ups. • Prisoner of conscience one of the first towns in the nation to rally as a Leib Knokh is bleeding community on behalf of internally, according to human rights in the information reaching the Soviet Union. , National Conference on A four-day human rights Soviet Jewry. Sentenced program was held involv- to 10 years in a strict re- ing the mayors of gime camp, all pleas to Lafayette and West have Knokh removed to Lafayette, and petitions medical facilities have containing 3,500 signa- been unanswered. He was tures were presented to one of 11 defendants in Indiana Congressmen for the first Leningrad trial presentation to the Soviet in December, 1970. Ambassador in Washing- Having previously re- ton. nounced his Soviet citi- • Soviet Jewish activist zenship, Knokh claimed Piotr Roitburg, a leading that he was, no longer figure in the Jewish cul- under the jurisdiction of a tural movement in the Soviet court and refused to USSR, was granted per- answer any questions dur- mission to emigrate on ing his trial pertaining to the same day he applied anyone other than the de- for an exit visa. fendants. His wife and • Four Israeli j our- child are now living in Is- nalists are in Moscow on a rael. eA ii 4101 4 •- ■ 4 * * * January Emigration Increases JERUSALEM (JTA) — compared to 49.3 percent A slight rise in emigra- in 1976. Immigration from tion during January was other parts of the world noted in the monthly re- - remained stable or showed port of the Jewish Agen- an increase. cy's immigration de- Increases were regis- partment. According to tered among olim from the report, arrivals num- South Africa, according bered 1,648 compared to to Max MiodOwnik, 1,506 during January, chairman of the Israel 1976. branch of the South AV — It was slightly lower can ZioniSt Federatio than the January 1975 fi- He said the Federation pure of 1,747. offices now interview The number of immig- about 200 olim a week rants from the Soviet compared to 50 six 111 Union increased but months ago. He said that there was a small de- aliya activities have in- f-1 crease in the number creased to. an extent that from all of Eastern private homes a-re no Europe compared to the longer adequate to hold same month last year. meetings. The Jewish Agency re- Miodownik predicted ported that the rate of. thpa the number of olim noshrim (dropouts) among from South Africa will So iet Jews who reached reach 1,200 this year, Vienna was 58. percent double_last year's figure. ':