THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 12, 1977 21

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U.S.-Soviet Trade Booming Despite
Jackson-Vanik Emigration Measure

WASHINGTON (JTA )—
Despite the Jackson-Vanik
amendment to the 1975
Trade Act and other restric-
tions making the Soviet
_ Union ineligible for U.S.
governmental credits, So-
viet-American trade has
vastly increased while Jew-
ish emigration is continuing
at a rate of slightly more
(-\_,) than 1,000 a month.
Two State Department re-
ports issued independently
in recent days "primarily
for government use" sum-
marize the state of U.S.-So-
viet economic relations and
the Soviet Jewish emigra-
tion situation.
The Soviet Union de-
nounced the trade agree-
ment signed in 1972 and the

emigration rate plummeted
in 1974 when legislation link-
ing U.S. credits . to emigra-
tion practices was being
overwhelmingly apporved
by Congress with the Ford
Administration's endorse-
ment.
Nevertheless, "over the
past five years, the U.S.
and the Soviet Union have
steadily expanded their eco-
nomic relationship," the De-
partment's report, "Gist,"
said. Two-way trade totaled
only $220 million in 1971 but
stood at $2.5 billion in 1976,
a ten-fold increase.
Last year, the trade bal-
ance was strongly in favor
of the U.S.. exports being
roughly $2.3 billion, about
65 percent in agricultural

Soviet Physicist Gets Israel Visa

NEW YORK (JTA)—For-
mer physicist, .Leonid Kov-
ner, from the town of
Gorky, has received per-
mission to emigrate to Is-
rael, according to reports
reaching the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry.

Kovner's parents, soon
after his application to emi-
grate, were publicly re-
buked. His mother was dis-
missed as a lecturer in
Gorky University's radio
faculty and his father was
severely reprimanded for

"public
without
being
awareness."
Meanwhile, in Washing-
ton, 55 Democrats and Re-
publicans in the House sign-
ed a resolution on behalf of
imprisoned Soviet Jewish
dissident Anatoly Sha-
ransky before the lower
chamber went on its month-
long summer recess last
Friday.
The resolution was in-
troduced two weeks ago by
Rep. John Buchanan (R-
Ala.), a Baptist minister
from Birmingham.

products,
and
imports
about $220 million.
The diplomatic missions
in Washington and Moscow
have established trade of-
fices and a joint U.S.-Soviet
commercial commission
has been meeting regularly,
the last time being in June.
At least 55 American firms
have entered into science
and technology cooperation
agreements and 25 firms
have received permission to
open offices in Moscow.
From 1948 through 1970,
about 8,600 Soviet Jews emi-
grated to Israel. From 1,000
in 1970, the number leaped
to 14,000 in 1971 and then to
31,500 in 1972, and 33,500 in
1973. In 1974, it was limited
to 20.000 and in 1975 held to -

Soviet Jews Stage Counter Art Exhibit

SAN . FRANCISCO
(JTA)—In reponse to the
opening of an official Soviet
art exhibit at the De Young
Museum, the Bay Area
Council on Soviet Jewry
opened a counter-exhibit
composed of works by Jew-
ish artists who fled per-
secution in the USSR for
their "unofficial" art work.
Representing the outdoor
"Soviet Underground Art
Exhibit" is Aleck Rapoport.
a newly arrived Jewish art-
ist from Leningrad. Some

Links Soug ht Between Bombings

NEW YORK (JTA)—Fed-
eral agents investigating
the explosion which demo-
lished a Chattanooga, Tenn.
synagogue are studying sim-
ilarities between that explo-
sion and the previous bomb-
ing of the Maryland home
of Morris Amitay, execu-
tive director of the Ameri-
can-Israel Public Affairs
Committee, to determine if
the two explosions are
linked.
"We are not discounting
the possibility. because of
similarities, that there is a
connection between the two
bombings, - said Dick Gar-
ner, the resident agent in
charge of the investigation
by the Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms Bureau of the
Treasury Department.
Garner stated he "can't
officially say" that the syna-
gogue explosion was caused
by a bomb until the labora-
tory tests being conducted
in Washington confirm that
suspicion. He affirmed, how-
ever, "We're following up a
bunch of leads."
A key similarity between
the two explosions is that
400 feet of electric cord was
found leading from the
Amitay house, and wires
were found leading from
the synagogue to a motel
100 yards away. "The wires
were apparently used for
the energy source for the
detonations (of the bomb
and, as yet, unconfirmed
bomb)," Chattanooga Com-
missioner of Police Gene
Robers said.
In addition to the use of
"similar ignition systems,"
Garner said another pos-
sible link between the two
explosions is the fact that
they were "both aimed to-
wards Jewish targets with-

in one week. - Roberts said,
"We must explore the prob-
ability that we are dealing
with some strain of anti-
Semit ism.

While waiting for the lab
results, Garner and his
agents, the FBI, and local
?once are pursuing local
_eads. "We believe people
at the motel observed some-
one, - Garner said adding
that there is "evidence of a
vehicle" having been in the

13.000. Last year, the total
was 14,000 and the rate was
"about the same - while
this "Gist" report was pre-
pared.
"Roughly half of those
now receiving exit visas for
Israel end up going some-
where else, mainly to the
United States," Gist said.
"The number of Soviet exit
visas for the U.S. issued to
Jews has remained relative-
ly stable, ranging from
about 500 in 1973 to 650 in
1976."
To assist in the resettle-
ment in Israel and else-
where of Soviet Jewish
emigres, the report said,
the U.S. has allocated
$176.5 million over the past
five years, "most of it ear-
marked for Israel."

area for -several days."
Amitay, a leading Wash-
ington advocate for the Is-
raeli point of view, and his
fimily were uninjured in
the blast that damaged
their home while they were
asleep. Congregants at the
small Orthodox synagogue
in Chattanooga had finished
Friday evening Shabat serv-
ices and had left the build-
ing less that an hour before
the expolsion, which vir-
tually levelled it.

Israeli Feminists Charge Police
With Apathy to Crime of Rap

The woman said she was
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A
score of feminists protested prompted by newspaper re-
last week against what they ports of a girl who was
raped by three men after
charged was a cavalier atti-
tude toward rape by the au- she was kidnapped at the
Petah Tikva bus terminal.
thorities and the society in
"It occurred to me that my
general. The women
daughter cannot walk
marched with placards, dis-
safely in the bus station any-
tributed leaflets and staged
a play on downtown King more." she said.
While the demonstrations
George St.
They demanded that so- were under way. two more
cial workers and psycholo- rape cases were reported in
gists be on duty at every po- Jerusalem.
lice station to extend aid to
rape victims and that only Diamond Dealers
women police officers inter-
to Meet in Israel
rogate them.
RAMAT GAN—The Con-
The feminists said that
gress of the World Feder-
the police do not seem to re-
ation of Diamond Bourses
gard "rape as a serious
will be held in Israel, May
crime" and charged that
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they often take the attitude
of Diamond Manufacturers
that the complainant encour- ' Associations will convene at
aged the suspect.
the same time.
A Tel Aviv woman recent-
ly sent IL 1,000 to the Pre-
Meetings and special
mier's office to help create
events of the congresses
a governmental unit that
will be held in Jerusalem,
would follow up rape cases
Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan,
and try to reduce that site of the Israeli Diamond
Exchange.
crime.

of his works are shown in
the counter-exhibit, which
is directly outside the main
entrance of the De Young
Museum. After studying the
catalog of the official exhib-
it inside, Rapoport ob-
served:

"Kandinsky and Ma-
levitch, two of the artists
shown in the official collec-
tion, are forbidden to show
their art in the USSR. They
are denounced in Soviet
press as 'enemies of the
people.' The works of Dre-
Yin and Udaltsova, which
appear in the De Young ex-
hibit. cannot be found any-
where in the Soviet Union.
"Pavel Filonov, whose
works appear in the official
Soviet exhibit, was depriv-
ed of food coupons during
the war for his 'modernism'
and died of hunger. It is ira
possible to see any of Filo-
nov's works in the Soviet
Union. Nalbandian, the cour-
tier artist of Stalin. .Krush-
chev and Brezhnev, won
many awards from the
heads of the Soviet apparati-
chik, - while in contrast,
Falk and Tatlin died of star-
vation under official censor-
ship. -

U.S. Is Seeking
Release of Hess

For .ustorn Drapery
Cleaning, Call

WASHINGTON—In a let-
ter released in Germany.
U.S. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance has called for
the release of Hitler aide
Rudolf Hess from Berlin's
Spandau Prison.
Vance's letter to German
politician Franz Josef
Strauss said the U.S. would
continue to seek the release
of the 83-year-old Hess,
which has been blocked by
Russia. and would also in-
sure that his conditions of
imprisonment remain toler-
able.

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WASHINGTON—Conflict-
ing testimony before Con-
gress on the disappearance
of enough uranium to make
six nuclear weapons has
again mentioned Israel as a
likely point to where the
material was diverted.
High inventory dis-
crepancies at a plant in Ap-
polio. Pa. have led some in-
telligence officials to testify
that 134 pounds of material
may have been diverted to
Israel.

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