24 Friday, March 18, 1977
'THE' DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
HAVE AN Ailing Dr. Shtern Released From Ukrainian Jail
AFFAIR
•
WITH
HAL -
GORDON
.
the impottation of rnatza
refusniks from cities ac.-
Izvestia of spying for the
ross the USSR have is- as an infringement on re-
U.S. Central Intelligence
' freedom.
sued
sued a statement saying
Agency, was picked up by
In Geneva it was re-
that "we shall very soon ported that American de-
the secret police.
feel
and experience
the legate Allard K. Lower-
Dr. Shtern's two sons
feel depth
of anti-Jewish
full
have ,emigrated to the
stein said the, United
being stirred up, States succeeded in end=
West. It was not known
to vomit forth from the ing a taboo and got the UN
whether he and his wife
mouth. of the volcanO.'''
would be permitted to
Human Rights- Commis-
The
statement
warned:
emigrate.
"During
the last
few sion to discuss the issue of
Musical Entertainment
Shcharansky, a young
Soviet dissidents. The 32-
Big Bands or
months, we have seen an nation commission is
engineer who-se wife is al-
escalation
in
the
ready
in
Israel,
has
been
Small Combos
growing dominated by nonaligned
stream of harassments
prominent in the move-
against Jews. Already, all and Communist countries.
ment of Soviet Jewish ac-
around us, we can hear
tivists who have been re-
In a related develop-
the echos and murmurs of
fused exit visas.
the Soviet Union,
this anti-Jewish feeling in stung by U.S. commen-
While denying the Iz-
the streets, shops, buses,
vestia charges, Shchar-
SPECIALIST
treatment o
Foreign Car Service
IN
metro and schools where tart'
on Its struck
arsky and the twoother
DR. MIKHAIL SHTERN
dissidents,
our children are pupils. It
VOLKSWAGEN
accused activists, Vla-
, news agency
had been manipulated.
AND
is every Jew iftthe Soviet with
Tas on alledged U.S.
dimir Slepak, an en-
articles
Meanwhile,
Iosif
Begun;
PORSCHE CARS
Union
nion who is a potential human rights violations.
gineer, and Aleksandr
Lerner, a computer scien- Soviet Jewish activist' victim for sacrifice.
,
CALL .
tist, have been living in from Moscow who was
Tass published stories
"At
this
serious
and
seized by Soviet police dangerous momencin our on the Wilmington 10 - .
fear of arrest.
while attempting to enter
Shcharansky's
wife,_
lives we want you to know trial and a Charlotte,
548-4160
-Natalia, who has been in the American Embasy in that no treachery, threat N.C., racial incident in
541-9704
Israel for the past two Moscow last month, is or libel can intimidate us. 1972, Stiff prison terms
years waiting for her under arrest on charges of We shall continue to fight were handed out to blacks
1018 W. 9. Mile Rd.
FERNDALE
Between livernois
husband to be allowed to vagrancy, according to re- for our freedom. We shall in both cases for allegedly
MICH.
Alfons G. Rehme
8 Pinehurst
leave the USSR; will be in ports reaching the Na- do everything in our power taking part in firebomb-
the U.S. Sunday under tional Conference on to restore and maintain ings. Tass wondered if
NCSJ sponsorship to Soviet Jewry.
Carter planned
In a related develop- the honor and dignity of President
to safeguard" the rights
plead his case.
our
people."
ment,
the
Student
Strug-
the
of the convicted in both -
Supporters of Dr.
The Presidium and cases.
Shtern have contended gle for Soviet Jewry and
DETROIT ZIONIST FEDERATION
that he was made . a the Union of Councils for Steering Committee of
In Ph oenix Ariz the
scapegoat because he re- Soviet Jews are demand- the- Brussels World Con- Arizona Young ,Republi-
fused to dissuade his ing that the Soviet au- ference on Soviet Jewry , can League (AYRL) is urg-
produce Dr. opened its semi-annual
sons, August and Viktor, thorities
Sanya
Lipaysky
"to face __meeting Monday in ing Young Republican
from applying for emigra-
presents
the
world
press
and
state Geneva with expressions clubs throughout the coun-
tion. Before his arrest in
himself that he indeed of "grave concern" over try to each adopt. a Jewish
1974, lie headed the Poly- wrote
family in the Soviet Union.
the • accusations
clinic department of the against Slepak, Lerner the intensified Soviet
Meanwhile, hundreds
Vinnitsa Pr_oVincial En- and Shcharansky. If he campaign against Jewish
emigration activists and of children of Soviet
docrinology Dispensary.
cannot
be
produced,
we
dissidents which, it was Jewish refuseniks anxi-
Tass repeated charges
that he had taken bribes must assume foul play claimed, exceeds in viru- ously await letters from
from patients and rela- and the false use of his lence anything experi- children in the West. The
enced by Soviet Jews
tives in return for arrang- name."
Conference on
Lipaysky. is a former since the end of the Stalin National
ing hospitalization and
Sovi& Jewry has pre-
Soviet
Jewish
dissident
era.
issuing disability certifi-
pared a list of children
Sunday March 27, 1977
Labor Zionist Institute
cates and had further who purportedly wrote.an-
and their addresses in the
28555
Middlebelt
Road
-
open letter that appeared
8:00 P.M.
It urged the-Soviet gov- USSR. Copies of the list
profited by selling medi- in
Farmington
Mich.
Izvestia
accusing
ernment
"to
call
off
this
Tickets—$2.50
cation. His defenders con- Soviet Jewish emigration
are available, upon re-
campaign, to allow quest from the NCSJ, 11
tended that the "charges activists
and dissidents of applicants for an exit W. 42nd St., New York,
permit to leave the Soviet N.Y. 10036.
Lebanese Solution - working forthe CIA.
The two groups said Union, to free all prison-
- TUNIS (ZINS) — The that their demand was ers of conscience and to
* *
Kuwaiti newspap
er Al- prompted by the fact that stop the harassment of
Kabas has suggested that they just received letters those who study the Heb-_ Blanchard Joins
PRESENTS
Palestinians in Lebanon dated Feb. 25 from rew language and prom-
be
moved to Syria, Jordan Lipaysky to Reps. Dante ote Jewish culture.
Protest to Moscow
Adult Education Lecture Series
and Egypt — the "con- Fascell (D-Fla.). and
S
C ongressman James J.
frontation" states — as a Robert Drinan (D-Mass.)
In Toronto, David Blanchard (D-Pleasant
means of solving the asking their aid to emig-: Satok, national chairman . Ridge) has joined with 50
Tuesday March 22nd 8 p.m.
Lebanese civil war.
rate to Israel.
of the Canadian. Commit- other members of the U.S.
The paper said the ul-
In another development, tee for Soviet Jewry, sent House of Representatives
DR. LAWRENCE BERKOVE
timate goal would be a the SSSJ and UCSJ re- a message to-Soviet Am- in a letter to Soviet leader
Lebanse population with ported that Leningrad ac- bassador
Alexander Leonid Brezhnev protest-
Professor of American Literature
no
more than six percent tivist. Vladimir Sverdlin Yakovlev
protesting iLn
Univ. of Mich. Dearborn Campus
g the harassment of
"foreigners."
was given a one-year sus-: against the. Soviet ban on Soviet
Jews.
S
pended sentence last
Will speak on
Beersheba Grows
week. He had been
BEERSHEBA (ZINS) . charged with "stealing
AMERICAN JEWS IN LITERATURE
— This city, which has
ammunition" after several
been scorned in the past
17-year-old bullets from
by Israelis, has grown ' the time he was a student
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university.
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In Israel, Foreign
Minister - Yigal Allon
Wednesday accused the.
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Soviet Union of opening
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Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, center,a
and six other Con-
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gressmen involved with the Helsinki Commission and
since the days of Stalin.
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SSSJ also spoke with State Department officials and
the Soviet . Union."
In New York it was demonstrated at the Soviet Embassy for kidnaped Mos-
learned that 250 Jewish cow. •Jewish teenager Marina Tiemkin.
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MOSCOW •
Dr.
Mikhail Shtern, a Jewish
physician jailed on
charges of bribery by the
Soviet government, was
released Tuesday from a
Ukrainian jail for health
reasons and on other
humanitarian grounds,
reports reaching the
.West stated,
- Two
hours
later
Anafoly Shcharansky,
one of th-ree Jewish ac-
tivists accused by the
goVernMent newspaper
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