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for Refusniks' Moscow Seminar
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fused Western scientists
hoping to attend an unoffi-
cial scientific conference in
Moscow by refusing visas to
19 scientists while granting
them to 24 others.
Three American scien-
tists and one Soviet emi-
grant, speaking at a press
conference here, said they
did not understand why
Soviet authorities denied
seven Americans and 12
French scientists permis-
sion to go to the USSR to
participate in the fourth
annual Conference on Col-
lective Phenomena which is
sponsored by a group of
Moscow refusnik scientists.
The' conference was held
from Sunday through Wed-
nesday in the Moscow living
room of one of its founders,
Viktor Brailovsky, a Jewish
activist and cyberneticS
specialist. Brailovsky, like
many other refusnik scien-
tists, most of whom are
Jewish, was expelled from
his job in the official Soviet
science system because of
his attempt to emigrate.
Six of the Americans
who were rejected
applied for visas specifi-
cally to attend the con-
ference. Another who
had attended the - 1978
conference had his appli-
cation for a tourist visa
rejected. But four Ameri-
cans applying for tourist
visas were accepted, • as
were 20 other Western
scientists. At least four of
the 20 had specified
attending the conference
on their visa applica-
tions.
Speaking at the offices of
the New York Academy of
Scientists, Dr. Heinz
Pagels, the academy's
president-elect, said he did
not know why some of the
applicants were refused and
other accepted. The other
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participants, Dr. Max Got-
tesman, co-chairman of the
Committee of Concerned
Scientsts and one of the six
Americans refused; Daniel
McCracken, president of the
Association for Computing
Machinery; and Benjamin
Levitch, a former Soviet ac-
tivist who is now a science
professor at the City Uni-
versity of New York, agreed
that the Soviet officials' mo-
tives were unclear. How-
ever, none of them believed
that the U.S.-Soviet strains
in the wake of the Soviet in-
vasion of Afghanistan was
the primary cause of the re-
fusal.
McCracken, who had also
been refused a visa, said the
Soviets were sending a
"message" but he could not
rule out the possibility of
bureaucratic error. Gottes-
man said Soviet consular
authorities in New York
gave him several reasons
for refusing to grant his
visa.
He said the Soviets im-
plied that conference host
Brailovsky's lack of official
recognition was partly to
blame, and that the Soviets
were also retaliating for the
recent State Department re-
fusal to grant visas to two
Soviet scientists wishing to
attend scientific confer-
ences in the U.S.,
Levitch, a sponsor and
participant in the semi-
nars and conferences be-
fore he emigrated from
the USSR, stressed the
purely scientific nature
of the gathering. He said
the exchanges with West-
ern scientists were the
"main source of scientific
life" for the refusniks. He
said the refusal of visas
signalled no change in
their attitude toward -the
refusniks, "not better,
not worse."
But Gottesman said that
the recent decline in the
number of Jews allowed to
emigrate was a bad sign. He
said the Soviet refusal to
recognize the conference
and seminar meant the re-
fusniks' work would remain
unacknowledged, leaving
them open to the charge of
"parasitism" which is a
crime in the USSR.
UIA Makes Interim Grant
NEW YORK — The
United Israel Appeal board
has made an interim alloca-
tion of $100 million toward
its projects in Israel for the
fiscal year commencing
April 1, 1980. The action is
the first commitment of
funds this year.
The board of governors of
the Jewish Agency recently
approved a budget of $385
million with a recom-
mendation that it be raised
to $445 million for fiscal
1981.
Major phases of this
interim funding adminis-
tered by the Jewish Agency
include: immigration and
absorption, $15 million; so-
cial welfare services, $10.
million; education, $10 mil-
lion; institutions of higher
learning, $20 million; youth
care and training, $15 mil-
lion; absorption in agricul-
tural settlements, $15 mil-
lion; immigrant housing, $8
million. Only seven percent
will go for general adminis-
tration ($2 million) and debt
services ($5 million).
An additional $10 million
was authorized by the board
for Project Renewal, whose
funds are made available
from one overseas commu-
nity for use in a neighbor-
hood "twinned" to it. The
overall Jewish Agency
budget for Project Renewal
in 1980-198 1 is $80 million,
including $30 million for
housing.
The UIA board formu-
lated guidelines for
structuring and strengthen-
ing the relationship be-
tween neighborhoods in Is-
rael and communities in the
States. An ad hoc commit-
tee, chaired by Mrs. Jane
Sherman of Detroit, is de-
Physics Prize to
Weizman Prof.
REHOVOT — This year's
Israel Prize in Physics has
been awarded to Dr. Chaim
Leib Pekeris of the Weiz-
mann Institute. Prof.
Pekeris is founder of the in-
stitute's department of
applied mathematics and a
world renowned pioneer in
the application of math-
ematics to fundamental
geophysical problems.
The Israel Prize, which
cites Prof. Pekeris for "his
outstanding achievements
in geophysics and in atomic
physics and for his having
propelled Israel into the era
of computers" will be pre-
sented by Israel's president,
Itzhak Navon, at a- special
ceremony to be held on In-
dependence Day, April 21.
veloping criteria for alloca-
tion and monitoring proce-
dures. A reporting system
outlining legal and account-
ing practices will assure
that full controls are being
maintained.
Lectures at HUC
NEW YORK — To assist
Hebrew Union -College's
School of Jewish Communal
Service in sensitizing its
students to major issues of
Jewish communal concern,
the American Jewish
Committee is sponsoring an
AJC lectureship at the
school, to be conducted each
summer by a member of its
professional staff.
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