THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Soviets Wnprison Two Jewish Refusniks

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Kim Fridman, a long-term
refusnik from Kiev, was ar-
rested March 18 and was
transferred to a local prison,
it was reported by the 'Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ). No details
were available as to the na-
ture of the charges against
him.
The news of Fridman's
arrest follows on the heels of
the arrest of another emig-
ration activist, Vladimir
Kislik, who was charged
with "malicious
hooliganism," a charge
which could result in his
being imprisoned for five
years in a labor camp.
Fridman, a 46-year-old
radio technician has been
arrested several times in
the past few years and
harassed by the KGB for
teaching Hebrew and the
history of Russian Jews.
Since 1972 he has re-
peatedly been denied an
exit visa to. Israel because
of his alleged access to
secret documents at a
- Kiev radio plant where
he worked. His wife and
daughter were allowed to
leave in 1976 and have

been waiting in Israel for
him to join them.
In Tel Aviv, Israel Radio
reported that Anatoly
Shcharansky has been held
in strict solitary confine-
inent in Labor Camp 35 in
Perm for the past three
months. The Soviet
authorities were reported to
be trying to break him by
psychological methods.
In New York, business
and government represen-
tatives have launched a
program aimed at helping
recent Soviet Jewish im-
migrants in New York es-
tablish small businesses
which, the representatives
say, will add a new dimen-
sion to existing efforts to re-
vitalize declining,
neighborhoods in the city.
An independent study,
"New Enterprises for New
Americans," released at a
press conference in New
York sponsored by the Fed-
eration of Jewish Philan-
thropies of New York and
the Federation Employ-
ment and Guidance Service
(FEGS), was designed to
provide information that
would enable the federation

WZO Budget Is Trimmed

JERSALEM (JTA) — The
World Zionist Organiza-
tion's budget for the new fis-
cal year will be $55.8 mil-
lion, some $3 million less
than last year's. This was
decided last week by the
WZO Executive.
The major paring came in
the Aliya and Absorption
Department, with less ear-
marked for help to bring
immigrants and their bag-
gage, as well as returning
residents, to Israel. The
budget figures were fixed
with regard to the present
lull in aliya figures.
The WZO stressed in an
announcement that if there
was an aliya upswing, more
funds would be made avail-
able and every newcomer
will be absorbed and helped.
WZO treasurer Akiva
Levinsky said over the
past year the WZO had
pruned some 15 percent
of its staff as, a savings
and efficiency measure.
The WZO also now em-
ployes 16 percent less
shlikhim than a year ago.
This does not mean less
shlikhim in the field; it
means local communities
are footing more
shlikhim salries,
Levinsky said.
The only WZO depart-
ment whose budget had
been raised slightly, said
Levinsky, was Youth and
Halutz — to cater to its
broad range of summer pro-
grams.
Referring to the current
soaring "neshira" (dropout)
rate (about 80 percent),

Understanding

NEW YORK (JTA) —
City Council President
Carol Bellamy, who re-
cently returned from a visit
to Israel, said that she came
back with a better under-
standing of the importance
Israel is attaching to the
West Bank.

aliya department chairman
Rafael Kotlowitz said the
Soviets were granting a
preponderance of permits to
would-be emigrants in
areas of the USSR known
for their high dropout
ratios.

to determine whether there
is a need for special techni-
cal assistance geared to
Soviet immigrants, and if
so, to determine the key
components of a program to
provide such assistance.
The report stressed
that despite its concen-
tration on Soviet Jewish'
immigrants, the conclu-
sions are applicable to
any group of immigrants
that would consider
opening a small business
in America.
The report recommended
that the federation should
implement a comprehen-
sive technical assistance
program for Soviet - iminig-
rants interested in opening
their own businesses.
Also, the federation;
through its central office as
well as its community based
agencies, should begin a
program to link resources of
community boards and local
development corporations
with the private resources
and initiative of the Soviet
immigrant community.
The report concluded that
the federation must initiate
a financial assistance pro-
gram for Soviet immigrants
interested in opening their
own businesses.
Meanwhile, the
number of Jews who ar-
rived in Vienna from the
Soviet Union in March
was 1,249, according to
Charlotte - Jacobson,
chairman of the Soviet
Jewry Research Bureau
of the National Confer-

ence on Soviet Jewry.
Mrs. Jacobson noted that
this number was slightly
below February's total of
1,407 but drastically lower
than last year's March total
of 3,049.

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of Israel will receive $2.2 35,000 Bedouins live in 14
million for the construction villages in northern Israel.
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