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of the Palestine Liberation
Organization stressed after
their recent national coun-
cil meeting in Syria that the
PLO will step up political
pressure on the U.S. to be-
come more "flexible" on
Middle East issues.
Spokesmen stressed that
they did not mean ter-
rorism, but that the PLO is
considering boycotting
American products and
stirring up Arab public
opinion.
Salah Khalef, deputy to
Yasir Arafat, told reporters
that the PLO wants to es-
tablish contacts with the
Reagan Administration,
but as long as U.S. policy
does not change the PLO
will be hostile to American
interests.
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LAWRENCE M. ALLAN
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Shcharansky Lingers and Nudel Suffers
as Other Refusniks Receive Exit Visas
NEW YORK (JTA) —
After waiting for almost
nine years for an exit visa,
Grigory Goman, his wife
Larissa, and their five-
year-old daughter Geula
have received permission to
emigrate to Israel.
Goman, 45, of Leningrad,
was subjected to constant
police harassment since he
first applied for a visa in
1972. A doctor of radiophys-
ical engineering, he has not
been able to work in his field
since 1972.
Meanwhile, the life of
prisoner of conscience
Anatoly Shcharansky
hangs in the balance. His
wife, Avital, reported that
his weight is now down to 91
pounds, he is going blind
and is losing his memory.
In another develop-
ment, Ida Nudel reported
that the but in which she
lives in the remote Sibe-
rian - village of
Krivesheino, to which
she was exiled in 1978,
was searched by Soviet
authorities after fellow
activists visited her.
One of the visitors, Dr.
Isai Goldstein, was detained
and interrogated and the
tape of his conversation
with Nudel was confiscated.
According to reports,
Nudel has received 4,000
registered letters from 19
countries since she was
exiled after she was. con-
victed on charges of hang-
ing a banner from her Mos-
cow apartment balcony de-
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manding an exit visa to Is-
rael.
She said she has not been
able to answer her corre- _
spondents because • her
hands are swollen from her
deteriorated physical condi-
tion.
Israel Monday held a
public birthday party to
mark the 50th birthday of
Ida Nudel.
At the same time, the
America Jewish Congress
has called • on Soviet
authorities to release Miss
Nudel and let her_ join her
family in Israel.
Meanwhile, three Soviet
Jewish refuseniks, includ-
ing one who applied to emi-
grate 13 years ago, have re-
ceived permission to emi-
grate, it was reported by the
Greater New York Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry.
Yakov Ariev, an engineer
from Riga, first applied to
emigrate to Israel in 1968.
He had been waiting longer
than any other refusenik in
the Soviet Union. Ariev was
denied permission to emi-
grate in the interest of
"state security" because he
spent a year in the army.
more than 20 leading Soviet
Jewish activists and re-
fuseniks during a two-week
visit to the USSR made on
behalf of the National
Lawyers Committee for
Soviet Jewry.
The experts in U.S. civil
rights law, described sev-
eral instances of the "ran-
dom nature of decisions" in
the USSR at a press confer-
ence at the Jewish Federa-
tion building.
The first occurred on
their arrival in Moscow.
Gertz was allowed to
enter the country carry-
ing documents but copies
of these documents were
branded "anti-Soviet
propaganda" when they
were found in Leighton's
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possession and were
summarily confiscated.
Another example of in-
consistency was the grant-
ing of permission to emi-
grate to one Soviet family
despite a member's in-
volvement in the highly
classified Soviet space pro-
gram.
The release of the Khess
family (after Grigori Khess
had been imprisoned with-
out charge for nine months)
provided a drastic contrast
to the experience of Col. Lev
Ovischer, a Soviet World
War II hero who for more
than 10 years has been de-
nied permission to rejoin his
daughter in Israel, al-
though he has not been in-
volved in any classified pro-
grams.
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Canadian Criticizes Soviet
Volume Denouncing Jews
TORONTO (JTA) — No
more telling indictment of
Soviet anti-Semitism can be
found than that written by a
life-long advocate of Corn-
munisin, Joshua Ger-
shman, the veteran left-
As one of the most wing journalist who edited
active refuseniks in the the now defunct publica-
Riga Jewish community, tion, The Vochenblatt, in
he was repeatedly haras- Toronto for many years.
sed by Soviet authorities.
His current articles ap-
Grigori Khess of Minsk, pear in the English-
who first applied to emi- language Vancouver publi-
grate in March 1972, and cation, Canadian Jewish
Grigori Kanovich of Lenin- Outlook.
grad, who first applied in
His latest article, titled
May 1979, were the other "Hitting Rock Bottom," re-
two refuseniks who received fers to a new Soviet novel,
their exit visas.
"At the Final Borderline,"
It also was warned that written by Valentin Pikul.
global celebrations of the
Gershman, who termed
first Seder were brought the book "anti-Semitic
home to Israel by a call from filth," was shocked to
Reuven Kaplan in Moscow. find a segment of the
The refusenik said that he book reprinted in the
celebrated first Seder with Canadian
Russian-
30 Russian Jews in hiding. language
pro-Soviet
In perfect Hebrew, Kaplan periodical, "Vestik."
explained his great joy at
The thrust of Pikul's story
attending the Seder, and his is that it was the Jews of
greater joy upon returning Czarist Russia, whom he
home and finding a letter in describes as "blackmailers,
his mailbox granting him a thieves, perjurers, liars,
visa to emigrate to Israel spies, provacateurs, pimps
next month.
and quack doctors" and as
In a related development, "rootless cosmopolitans,"
Soviet security police pre- conspired with the priest
vented about 20 Jewish sci- Rasputin to corrupt all gov-
entists from holding their ernment circles and to in-
regular Sunday seminar in tensify the oppression
the apartment of jailed against the workers and
Jewish refusnik Viktor peasants.
Brailovsky, whose wife,
In fact, Rasputin is not
Irina, is the acting secretary
presented as being himself
of the group.
evil but as a "poor andhelp-
Former Russian pris-
less" instrument of the
oner of conscience, Yosef Jews.
Mendelevich, will make a
Gershman reported that
public appearance at the
according to Pikul, "the
59th anniversary dinner
Jews of old Russia con-
of Agudath Israel of trolled most of the news-
America May 31 at the
papers, including the anti-
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
Semitic ones; controlled the
New York City.
high establishments such as
In Chicago, two jurists the banks, brothels, night-
who recently returned from clubs and so on. In step with
other Soviet anti-Semitic
the Soviet Union decried
writers, Pikul repeats the
"capricious decisions" re-
garding the rights of Jews libel of `Zhidomasonski-
Tsenter'. This is the fabrica-
there and urged firm U.S.
tion of the Jewish Masonic
action to improve the situa-
Center of Europe with the
tion.
Rothschilds at the head."
U.S. District Court Judge
Continuing, Gershman
George Leighton and attor-
pointed out: "According to
ney Elmer Gertz formed
their opinions after meeting Pikul, the vast majority of
Jews lives almost sumptu-
ously. Many of them were
exceedingly wealthy. Her
permits himself to write in
this fashion in the face of
the well-established fact
that almost 95 percent of
the Jews in Czarist Russia
lived in conditions of in-
tolerable poverty."
Back in the 1930s, 1940s
and 1950s, and even well
after the revelations at the
20th Congress of the Soviet
Communist Party about the
"cult of Stalin," any criti-
cism of writing that origi-
nated in the Soviet Union
would be denounced by Ger-
shman as "red-baiting" or
as "war mongering attacks
on the workers' fatherland."
Gershman acknowledges
with some sadness that the
truly humanistic forces in
the USSR like the poet Yev-
tushenko and others are
"eclipsed," but concludes his
article on a hopeful note
that "we must not permit
ourselves to be thrown into
a state of confusion . . . we
must conduct a ceaseless
struggle for the Leninist
goals launched . . . by the
October (1917) revolution."
Nationalists Pray
on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (JNI) — A
group of nationalist Jews
recited the Minha (after-
noon) service at the Al Aksa
Mosque on Jerusalem's
Temple Mount last week.
Prayers are forbidden on
the site both by Moslem
religious officials and some
Orthodox Jews wo believe a
Jew who has entered the
Moslem area would desec-
rate the "Holy of Holies."
• Members of the nationalist
group have repeatedly tried
to pray on the Temple
Mount since the Six-Day
War.
Coalition Seen
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Labor MK Abba Eban be-
lieves Moshe Dayan's slate
will join the Likud after the
Knesset elections in June to
try to form a coalition gov-
ernment.