Friday, lily 21, 1918 21 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Riegle Denounces Soviet Trials and comfort to a Soviet regime that would de- vour its own people. (Editor's note: The fol- lowing statement by U.S. Senator Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.) was deli- vered on the Senate floor on July 11 to protest the trials in the Soviet Union of Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg.) By SENATOR RIEGLE What citizen of the world can remain silent in the face of the unjustified and will- ful persecution by the Soviet Union of Messrs. Shcharansky and • Ginzburg? I rise today as one who has spent some 12 years here in the U.S. Congress. I consider myself an inter- nationalist — and one who has long supported U.S. ef- forts at detente. I prefer to see harmonious and produc- tive relations between the U.S. and the USSR. But today's trials in the Soviet Union of human rights activists Shcharansky and Ginzburg show a blind bureaucratic savagery that makes a mockery of a detente that would be both dependable and decent. I am outraged to see the abuse of power by the lead- ers of the Soviet Union in using the unrestrained force of the state in an at- tempt to terrorize and in- timidate these two men. They have committed the crime of daring to speak the truth and to ask their coun- try to obey its own laws and international commit- ments. For this, they face the prospect of a brutal im- prisonment and even death. What sick and twisted bureaucratic midgets demand and carry out these fraudulent trials? The dead heroes of Rus- sian history would be sickened and ashamed to see their state become a monster; one so empty and paranoid that it can- not stand the threat posed by the dissenting voice of a single indi- vidual. How great the irony that the strength of Russian his- tory and the Russian people is represented today by two men of conscience standing alone, threatened by the crushing force of a Soviet' government that has be- come a monster of deceit and retribution by its be- havior-with these trials. This Senator sees only one Soviet government today — and it stands in shame for its role in these phony trials now under way. What value is one to place on the pledges and guarantees of a government of this sort? What is the meaning and value of the word of the Soviet government when it comes to international ar- rangements? What can one expect from Soviet pledges concerning the Helsinki Ac- cords, or a possible SALT agreement? How can they mean any more than the guarantees the Soviet Union makes to its owr). SENATOR RIEGLE people — its own national flesh and blood? I cannot imagine a SALT treaty I could sup- port with a nation that terrorizes its own people. I cannot see the value of an expanded trading re- lationship with a gov- ernment that brutalizes dissenters who act within the bounds of the Soviet Constitution. I am ashamed of the conduct of the Soviet government and I must urge my own government to do no- thing that would give aid If the Soviet government insists in these willful per- secutions of innocent people — if it continues to violate the basic international standards of human de- cency and elemental justice — it will be left alone as an isolated and despised gov- ernment bent on self- destruction. The strength of the Rus- sian people over the cen- turies is to be found today — not in the governmental midgets hidden in the Kremlin pinning medals on each other — but in the Russian patriots Shcharansky and Ginzburg who ask that their govern- ment honor its own laws. These men and their families are not alone. This is one Senator who is unprepared to strengthen the hand of the oppressors in the Soviet government in any way — and I intend to fully reflect these feelings in each and every policy question I am able to act upon here in the Senate. Milgrom to Head Stag Day for 1978 Campaign Workers Myron L. Milgrom has been appointed chairman of the Detroit Service Group's annual Stag Day, DSG President Arthur Howard has announced. The day set aside to honor Allied Jewish Campaign — Israel Emergency Fund volunteers is scheduled for Sept. 7 at Knollwood Coun- try Club. Milgrom was chairman of the Stag Day prizes and awards committee in 1977. He was 1978 vice chairman MYRON MILGROM of Pre-Campaign and co- chairman of the Real Estate budgeting and planning di- and Building Trades Divi- vision. President of Hillel Day sion during previous Cam- Scholarship paigns. 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