THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS WHY WORRY !! Leave Everything to Us Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Reach the Jews Behind Iron Curtain By GENE SOSIN Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Wyn & Harold Landis HOME CATERING Phone 557-6157 • STYLE • ELEGANCE • BEAUTY WYN-HAROLD CATERING NEW YORK — Jews in the Soviet Union and East- ern Europe more than ever rely on Western radio broadcasts for uncensored information since the era of detente has given way to a new and ominous period of tension between the U.S. and USSR. Among the most powerful voices from abroad that beam shortwave programs into the Soviet Union and its satellites are Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL), both sup- ported by annual grants from the U.S. Congress to the Board for International Don't let winter take its toll on your carpeting SAVE up to 40%* on carpet cleaning Living roorn'and hallway carpeting cleaned $3995 (up to 300 sq. ft.) regularly 556.45 Cat today — 353-1910 Save 25% on furniture deoning also Steve Hagopian Steve Hagopian & Co., 21421 Hilltop, Suite 15, Southfield The more we clean, the more you'll save . The plain and simple window blind deal. WINDOWORKS offers you a money-saving, no-nonsense way to cover your windows with the most practical and most elegant window treatments available. VERTICAL BLINDS 25% off WOVEN-WOODS 1" DECOR BLINDS 30% off 35% off PLUS! FREE measuring and design. FREE, no obligation estimate. FREE installation (Oakland Co.) NO ADDITIONAL freight and handling charges. Absolutely no hidden costs . plain and simple. . For information, call 933-6700 11'IND011/ORKS Boradcasting appointed by the President. More than 1,000 hours weekly are broadcast over several 100-kilowatt and 250-kilowatt transmitters located in West Germany, Spain and Portugal. In the course of a week, RFE reaches an audience esti- mated at 26 million in Bul- garia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania, while RL is heard by about seven million lis- teners to programs in Rus- sian and 14 national minor- ity languages of the Soviet Union, including the in- creasingly important Tur- kic tongues of the Moslem population in Soviet Cen- tral Asia. Like the Voice of America, the BBC and other foreign stations, RFE and RL regularly cover events abroad that correct the distortions of the Communist- controlled media. How- ever, the latter two sta- tions place greater em- phasis on internal sub- jects of special interest to listeners with varying ethnic backgrounds. In the Munich headquarters and in bureaus in New York, Washington and major Western European capitals, emigre staff members research, write and voice programs with the cooperation of American specialists. Among them are many recent Jewish emigres. Soviet Jews who hear RL are kept abreast of Jewish activities inside the USSR and abroad. The human rights struggle in the face of growing anti-Semitism, the fate of the refusniks and Prisoners of Conscience, and problems of the emigra- tion are continually re- ported. Interviews with Av- ital Shcharansky, Eduard Kuznetsov and others form a regular part of RL's pro- gramming, along with ac- counts of the efforts of Jewish organizations in the U.S., Israel and Western Europe on behalf of Soviet Jewry. In addition, Jewish lis- teners who have long been cut off from their religious and cultural traditions are provided with a special weekly program in Russian. It is frequently interspersed with Hebrew and Yiddish, especially during the obser- vance of major Jewish holi- days, when prayers and songs help to restore the past. Correspondents de- scribe the vitality of Jewish life in Israel, Western Europe and America. Although the Jewish population of the Eastern European countries is dwindling, RFE's broadcast desks offer programs of par- ticular attraction to that audience. For example, the Bulgarian service, like the others, "cross reports" the activities of Soviet Jewish dissidents. The Czechoslovak service has a regular free-lance correspon- dent, Erich Kulka, in Jerusalem. Its cultural programs contain fre- quent contributions from Avigdor Hagan, the former Israeli ambas- sador in Vienna, who is also a Czech language writer well-known under his original name of Vik- tor Fischl. The Hungarian broad- casts include Passover, Rosh Hashana and Hanuka programs written by Dr. Janos Barta, a Hungarian rabbi living in Stuttgart. The fate of Raoul Wallen- berg, the long-missing Swedish diplomat who helped save the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, is a subject frequently treated in the broadcasts to Hungary. Among the Polish broad- casts are discussions of the Holocaust, relations be- tween the Poles and Jews in the U.S. and Western Europe, and the flourishing of the Yiddish language in pre-war Poland. More than 25,000 Jews still in Romania obtain a perspec- tive on the problems of their own community, often by means of interviews with Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen during his trips abroad. Is- rael is understandably of great interest to them since 350,000 Romanian Jews have emigrated there (and incidentally, RFE has a sizeable audience among them.) From the U.S. come reg- ular reports on the work of Bnai Brith, the Joint Dis- tribution Committee and other Jewish organizations. Despite jamming and virulent attacks against RFE and RL in the Com- munist press, feedback from a significant sample of lis- teners offers evidence that they appreciate the role of these stations as a vital lifeline from the outside world. Recently, a report was made based on an ABC-TV documentary dealing with Valerian Trifa and others accused of anti-Jewish terror in wartime Eastern Europe who are now awaiting trials and possible depor- tation from the U.S. (Editor's note: An RFE interview of Trifa last year on the 50th anniver- sary of the Romanian Or- thodox Church in America has been the subject of a heated de- bate between members of Congress, Jewish groups and the RFE-) Except for the Hungarian and Romanian programs of RFE, all broadcasts to the USSR and Eastern Europe are subjected to jamming, which is particularly effec- tive in metropolitan centers of the USSR, Czechos- lovakia and Bulgaria. This interference not only is a considerable financial strain on the regimes, but it is also a flagrant violation of the international agree- ments such as the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference on Security and Coopera- tion in Europe, calling inter alia for "expansion in the dissemination of informa- tion broadcast by radio." Russian Apologetic Denies Jews Are Being Molested An apologetic from the Soviet embassy in Wash- ington, sent as a Novosti News Agency feature bylined Iosef Rubin, re- ceived by The Jewish News, denies there is anti-Jewish discrimination in the USSR. It maintains that freedom of emigration is granted and paints a glow- ing picture of Jewish pro- gress under Communism. The portrayal appears in this article by the Jewish spokesman. Commencing with reminiscences of Czarist oppressions, the ar- ticle states that Jews make up less than one percent of the Soviet population, but account for 5.7 percent of all Soviet scientists, 5.2 per- cent of the artists, 6.5 per- cent of the writers, 3.4 per- cent of the doctors and nurses and 6.7 percent of all Soviet lawyers. The article goes on to mention famous Soviet sci- entists and generals who are Jews, and claims that assimilation of Jews in the Soviet Union is the same as- similation that Jews ex- perience elsewhere. Rubin then states that the reason many Jews want to leave Russia is to reunite with their families, find a better life, or "explain their departure for Israel as the call of kinship." He claims that "as far as I know, 98.4 percent of the Jews who applied for exit visas were granted them." Friday, February 22, 1980 43 WE SELL FOR LESS FRI. & SAT. . 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