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NEW YORK (JTA )—
More than 30 demonstra-
tors, nine of them with
packed suitcases, offered
themselves to the Soviet
Union in front • of Aeroflot
airlines Monday, as hog-
tages in exchange for Ana-
toly Sharansky, the jailed
Jewish activist accused of
being a spy for the CIA.
The charge of treason
against Sharansky carries
with it a possible death sen-
tence.
Officials of the Soviet air-
line refused to meet with
the demonstrators, but with
, a city policeman acting as
an intermediary, referred
them to the Soviet mission.
Marching in a circle and
chanting: "If Sharansky is
CIA, Brezhnev is FBI," the
demonstrators . . then
marched to Intourist, the So-
viet travel agency, and
were refused entry.
Meanwhile, Prof. Ben-
. jamin Fain, leader of the at-
tempt to revive Jewish cul-
ture in the Soviet Union,
has received an exit permit
to rejoin his daughter in Is-
met, the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry and Union
of Councils for Soviet Jews
repoited. The USSR also
has released Jewish POC
Yakov Wmarov a year
early.

In a related development,
Newsweek magazine'repOrt-
ed that Soviet Jewish
mathematician
Grigory
"Grisha"
Chudnovsky,
whose first treatise was pub-
lished by the Soviet Acad-
emy of Sciences when he
was 11, has been given an
unofficial death sentence
since his country won't
allow him to- travel to Is-
rael to seek treatment for
myasthenia gravis from
which he is suffering.
Chudnovsky has been

kept alive for the past five
years with a Swiss-made
drug Called Mistinon which
is no longer available in the
Soviet Union. Relatives in
Israel say doctors there
will be able to help him,
but Soviet officials have re-
peatedly refused the young
Kiev mathematician per-
mission to emigrate.
According to Soviet law,
Chudnovsky and his family
are qualified to emigrate,
and he insists he has no
state secrets. However, the

magazine states that al-
though the Soviets claim
they have the best medical
care in the world, by allow-
ing Chudnovsky to emigrate
it would be an admission
that Soviet medicine "does
not always measure up."

In Amsterdam the Dutch
Committee of Solidarity
with Syrian Jews held an
open air demonstration in
Museum Square calling on
syria to `let My people
go•"

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Hundreds of protesters organized by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, AMerican
Jewish Congress and Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry marched down New
York City's Fifth Avenue to protest the Kremlin's imprisonment of Jewish emigration
spokesman Anatoly Sharansky of Moscow as a "paid CIA spy" and sentencing of Russian
Jewish cultural leader Dr. Iosif Begun to "exile" in Siberia. If tried, Sharansky could be
executed. Special postcards for Sharansky are •available free from SSJ at 200 W. 72nd St.,
Suites 30-31, New York, N.Y. 10023.-

Newsman Reports Harassment DMC, Likud
by Soviets, Sharansky Support Talks Fade

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NEW YORK (JTA)7--Rob-
ert C. Toth, who recently re-
turned to the United States
after three years as the
Moscow bureau -chief of the
Los Angeles Times, said
that Soviet officials do not
realize the depth of support
- for Jewish activist Anatoly
Sharansky in the U.S., espe-
cially • among American
Jews.
He said that if the USSR
carries out its threat to try
Sharansky for treason and
espionage "they will turn
him into the first Jewish
martyr in the Soviet Union
since the Stalin era."
Toth, who was questioned
for nearly 14 hours by the
KGB on charges of collec-
ting secret political and mil-
itary information and later
about Sharansky, answered
questions about his expe-
riences to more than 100
persons in the auditorium
of the Bnai Brith' Anti-Defa-
mation = League headquar-
ters. The meeting was spon-
sored by the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry
and was attended by news-
men and members of the
conference and chaired by
Eugene Gold, conference
chairman, and Jerry GOod-
man, its executive director.
Toth said that everything
Sharansky did was legal
and aimed at helping him-
self and other Jews emi-
grate to Irael. Toth said
that all of his dealings with
Sharansky were held out in
the, open as were Sha-
. . ran.sky's meetings with.

other. western correspond-
ents.
Toth said ,when he was
first arrested by the KGB it
was on a charge of illegally
obtaining a document on
parapsychology. He said
the KGB first said he was
questioned on the charge of
collecting secret informa-
tion, but later the question-
ing turned to Sharansky
and other' Jewish activists
and Soviet dissidents.
The newsman, whose
next assignment will be in
Washington, said he had ex-
pected to be held for at
least a month, but he believ-
ed the public reaction by
the American press and gov-
ernment as well as the
strong pressure by the U.S.
government convinced the
Soviets to let him go.

Calder Sculpture
Dedicated in Israel

JERUSALEM—A "Sta-
bile" sculpture by the late
Alexander Calder was dedi-
cated in Jerusalem last
month. The Stabile stands
near Mount Herzl, at the
junction of roads leading
from the city to Yad Vash-
em, Kiryat Hayovel, the vil-
lage of Ein Kerem and the
Hadassah Medical Center.
The massive red-orange
structure was dedicated by
Mrs. Louisa Calder, widow
of the artist famous for his
gouaches, oils, tapestries,
stabiles and mobiles. .

• TEL AVIV (JTA )—Hopes
for an early decision by the
Democratic Movement for
Change, to resume negotia-
tions with Likud on joining
its coalition government.
faded -Tuesday. The possi-
bility remains open but fol-,
lowing a meeting Monday
between Premier Menahem
Begin and DMC leader Yi-
gael Yadin, new problems
appeared to arise indicating
further delay..
The DMC secretariat
which heard Yadin's report
of the meeting; debated all
day Monday and Tuesday.
The outcome was a request
for further clarification
from Likud. The stumbling
block now is not only
Likud's foreign policy ap-
proach but political mat-
ters.
The DMC wants to know
exactly where Likud stands
on its demand for electoral
reforms. The DMC also
says Likud's offer of cabi-
net portfolio was vague.
Before he formed his gov-
ernment, Begin said all por-
ttfolios were negotiable.
Now, with most of their
filled, the DMC wants to
know if there is anything to
ne,gotiate about. Begin did
leave three' ministries va-
cant—justice, welfare and
transportation and commu-
nications—which he said
were reserved for the DMC.
But it is not known whether
these were acceptable to it.
The DMC secretariat
met again Thursday when
it was to decide whether or
•not conditions were suitable
to resumelalks with Likud..

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