THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS n; 1980 Night of Murdered Poets LOUVERDRAPE VERTICALS I Recalls Soviet Oppression 18 Friday, August r----111.1.11.11"Mil . a ..1111.11.111116.11 "1.1 FLEXALUM 1" BLINDS-SHADES I, A50/ 0 NEW YORK (JTA) — Twenty-four of the Soviet Union's leading Jewish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors were executed in Moscow's notorious Lubianka Prison I 11S TAL1ATION AVAILABLE I c e ori retail ott list CUSTOM MADE DRAPES 1 , at UNBEATABLE PRICES 1 "I. 1 For Complete Service Call: I iN E T IG ALID A V YI — T ER.E1 5-5 1:86. 20. IT'S A BUYER'S MARKET . . . NOW IS THE TIME! AL STEINBERG on Aug. 12, 1952. That 'event came to be known as "The Night of the Murdered Poets." Some of those executed were among the more than 400 outstanding Jewish ar- tists who we're rounded up in the winter of 1948-1949 and exiled, with their families, to the Gulag," Burton Levinson, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, recalled on the 29th anniversary of the tragic event. "Most of them died in labor camps, leaving three million Jews without teachers, creative leaders and communal institutions. "Today, 28 years later, we are reminded that there are many in the USSR who are still op- pressed and enslaved be- cause they are Jews. Anti-Semitism, in many guises, is increasingly pervasive." As an example, Levinson noted that the rate of Jewish emigration from the- Soviet Union to Israel and to other nations has been slashed to about 40 percent of its 1979 level. PLO Spokesman Campaigns Against Church, Packwood WASHINGTON (JTA) — A leading Palestine Libera- tion Organization prop- agandist, Dr. M.T. Mehdi of New York City, is cam- paigning in Idaho and Ore- gon to block the re-election of two U.S. Senators who support friendly relations with Israel. The two are Sen. Frank Church (D- Idaho), chairman of the Se- nate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bob Packwood (R-Ore.). Mehdi identifies himself as "Secretary General of Arab People to America." His tactics against Church and Packwood, among the most articulate supporters of Israel in Congress, in- clude advertisements in newspapers urging opposi- tion to "all American mili- tary aid to Israel and the Arab states." He also suggests that the , Anti-Arafat HELSINKI — Nearly 24,000 Finns signed peti- tions in recent weeks oppos- ing any visit to Finland by Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat. Arab states would boycott wheat from Idaho. To avoid charges that he is interfering in American elections, Mehdi masks his propaganda by claiming that he is conducting an "educational campaign." Prisoners Eat JERUSALEM — All but three of the Palestinian prisoners who went on a hunger strike at Napha Prison in the Negev have ended the strike after 33 days. The special prison for convicted terrorists was charged by the strikers with having poor conditions. Two prisoners died while being force-fed by prison authorities during the strike. Aliya Reduced JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 13,574 immigrants arrived in Israel in the first seven months of 1980, a de- crease of 35.4 percent com- pared to the same period last year. The Soviet gov- ernment has drastically re- duced the number of exit visas granted to Jews. The B'nai B'rith Foundation Youth Services Appeal Campaign Kick-Off Dinner Tuesday, August 26th, 1980 6:00 P.M. at Adat Shalom Synagogue • The B'nai B'rith Youth Serving Agencies, the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (A.Z.A. and B.B.G.) and the B'nai B'rith. Hillel Foundations on college campuses are the link to helping train your young Jewish Leadership. Investing in today's youth builds America's tomorrow. Keynote Speaker Norman Adelsberg Louis E. Barden Kenneth Bertin Floyd Bornstein Sam Braverman Joseph Broder h i c e DR. DANIEL THURSZ Vcierigtv Dr. Jerry Appel David Bittker Martin Brusseloff Manny Charach Philip Cohen A. J. Cutler Honrary Chairmen Joseph Cutler William Q. Graham David Handleman Dr. William Haber Harold Jaffa Jay Kogan Nathan Korash Sol Moss Dr. Milton Shiffman Philip Slomovitz Joshua J. Stone Nathan Willis Allen Charlupski Henry Dorfman Joel F. Garfield Ben Gordon Louis A. Goutman Nathan Harris Honorary Co-Chairmen Alexander Karp Charles Milan Myron Milgrom Ralph Miller, 'Abbert,N,aftaly Milford Nemer David Pollack Maurice Rosender Fred Rasnick Richard Sloan I. W. Sherr Irving Siegel B'nai B'rith Foundation Chairman Louis Weber David. Bittker Floyd Bornstein Joel F. Garfield Co-Chairmen David Levine Ernest Shaw Arthur C. Schott Sol Moss Harry Weinberger Donald Simon Phillip Stollman Max Wayburn Edwin Weinstein Harvey L. Weisberg For Information and Reservations Call B'nai B'rith Foundation 552-8070 \__/