16 Friday, December 1, 1919 , , s THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 50% OFF entire art inventory including signed originals by: ALVAR APPEL BOULANGER CALDER LEBADANG DALI MOTHERWELL DEBERDT SOYER NESBITT HIBEL SIMBARI ROTHE JENKINS and many others .. . SAT. & SUN., DEC. 8 & 9 — 10 a.m.-9 p.m. PAVILION GIFTS Southfield Road at 101/2 Mile Mrs. Shcharansky Continuing Her Appeal for Release of Her Jailed Husband Anatoly WASHINGTON (JTA) — Avital Shcharansky, wife of imprisoned Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, re- turned to Washington last week appealing for contin- ued support to help obtain her husband's release so that he can join her in Is- rael. Looking worn from her ceaseless efforts for her husband's freedom, Mrs Shcharansky met with re- porters at a breakfast at the National Press Club, ap- peared on television and later was a guest at a recep- tion at the Capitol, hosted by Rep. Robert Drinan (D- Mass.), who she described as a "dear friend of our fam- ily." The reporters received copies of her personal ac- count of her life, entitled "Next Year in Jerusalem" which were Anatoly's last words when his trial ended in Moscow in 1977. (See back page.) Mrs. Shcharansky ex- plained the background of what she called the double standard the Soviets employ regard- ing dissidents. As an example, she said the Soviet government pro- duced "the very aggressive" television film against Is- rael and Zionism that em- phasized to the Soviet peoples "we have here in the Soviet Union soldiers of Zionism," meaning, she said, "persons like Anatoly, the Slepaks and Ida Nudel." Mrs. Shcharansky ob- served that "On the one hand, the Soviet govern- ment makes an anti- Semitic atmosphere in the street and on the other hand it won't let them (the dissi- dents) out." She said that with the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow only eight months away, Jews in the Soviet Union are saying, "we're af- raid" that the round-ups and removals from Moscow and other cities that pre- ceded the visit of President Nixon in 1972 will be re- peated to avoid possible con- tacts with foreigners. Mrs. Shcharansky urged that letters from individuals and state- ments by officials be sent to the Soviet authorities to explain to the Russians in a "big public cam- paign" that in her special case "Anatoly is sick" and that other Jews want to emigrate too. In a related development, Congressman William Brodhead (D-17th District) introduced a resolution in the House of Representa- tives Monday urging President Carter "to use `Israel Better Understood Due to Iran Crisis' WARWICK, R.I. (JTA) — Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) said he feels that, as a result of the Iranian crisis, Ameri- cans have developed a new understanding of Israel and its problems. Speaking before more than 500 corporate execu- tives and guests at a State of Israel Bonds dinner last week at which sales of over $2.3 million in Bonds and other instruments were re- ported, Warner said, "The Iranian crisis has brought Americans together in pa- triotism. It is beginning to unite the Congress behind a strong national defense of which Israel is an integral part. We have developed a new empathy with Israel because of its courage and because it faces dangers constantly. We are learn- ing, as Israel has learned when faced by terrorists, no nation can surrender to ter- rorism." every means at his disposal to help insure the basic human rights of all peoples throughout the world." The resolution also called upon "the leaders of the Soviet Union, Argentina, Ethiopia and other coun- tries (to) remove all obsta- cles to the free emigration of their Jewish citizens and others who wish to leave to live in other countries, and insure the free exercise of religious beliefs and cul- tural expression." It also supported the - Day of Solidarity With Op- pressed Jewry" Sunday, sponsored by Detroit's Jewish Community Council and constituent organiza- tions. The National Confer- ence on Soviet Jewry re- ported that members of the Congressional Wives Committee for Soviet Jewry joined a nation- wide observance of the Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry Wednesday in Washington. They fo- cused on freeing Miss Nudel. Representing the Con- gressional Wives Commit- tee were Mrs. Henry Jackson, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mrs. Jack Kemp and Mrs. James Blanchard. The United Nations has declared Dec. 10 Human Rights Day. Genuine RCA Video cassettes: VK 250 up to six hours! Factory Fresh ONLY s1/199 6-HOUR TAPE Le Von's 30825 Greenfield at /3 Mile 642-4466 _ A UNIQUE GIFT IDEA FOR HANUKA AVIA 111164 ..adiki WV" ws „akes g‘s- kotN1 ak cos tN es a- .gt.01°) 1:: tiore -1 1 00 ntl., 07,0 0° i0 t ". 0 00. .0 cv°°,01ge e. 03` . ;x 55"` sAsN