THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS D.C. Protest Commemorates Leningrad Trial Detainees WASHINGTON (JTA) — About 100 persons demon- strated across from the Soviet Embassy here Mon- day to mark the 11th an- niversary of the Leningrad hijack arrests and to protest the continued imprison- ment of the last two defen- dants, Yuri Fklerov and Alexei Murzhenko, both - non-Jews. In a related development, e trial of Soviet Jewish ac- tivist Viktor Brailovsky opened last week in the Lublinsky Peoples Court in Moscow. Brailovsky, a cybernetist, is charged with crimes against the state and de- faming the Soviet Union and its social system. Vla- dimir Prestin, a 10-year re- fusnik, has been summoned to appear as a witness. Brailovsky's wife Irina was told by the judge that he was offered defense counsel selected by the Moscow College of Advo- cates, but that he had re- fused. She has not been permitted to see her hus- band who remains in jail pending trial. Ik In Jerusalem, new statis- tics on noshrim, the Soviet Jews who choose to go to the West rather than to Israel, have renewed the debate over the policy of U.S. Jewish federations to allow Soviet Jewish emigrants freedom of _choice on where they will settle. According to figures pre- sented at the Brussels Con- ference on Soviet Jewry, Soviet authorities have been reducing emigration in rough approximation to the noshrim rate. In 1980, 97 percent of Soviet Jews emigrating from Odessa chose to go to the West rather than to Is- rael. The Soviets have re- duced the number of exit visas for Odessa Jews by 85 percent this year. Similar figures were found for other cities: Kiev — 95.9 percent neshira, visas reduced 92.5 percent; Charkov — 90.6 percent percent neshira, visas reduced 88.3 percent; Moscow — 86 percent, 90 percent; Leningrad — 86, 88; Riga — 65, 74; Vilna — 34, 51; Kishinev — 34, 43; -Tiflis — 32, 54. Eli Eyal, chairman of the World Zionist Organization Information Department, said these figures change the noshrim debate. Eyal said that the prob- lem of getting the Jews out of Russia took precedence for many over the problem of where the emigrants should settle. Now the Soviets are linking where the emigrants settle to how many Jews can leave Rus- sia. Shop Owner Found With Stolen Torahs DAD'S THE WORD. NEW YORK (JTA) — David Levy, 49, owner of a yarmulka shop on Manhat- tan's Lower East Side, was arrested last week on charges of possession of a Torah stolen from the Kehila Kedosha Jamina synagogue on Broome Street, also on the Lower East Side. Levy was arrested in his shop on Essex Street while attempting to buy three To- rahs stolen in November 1980 from a young man who was cooperating with the authorities. Levy was also found in possession of stolen Torah cases, breast plates and crowns. Dad deserves the besr and Tennis Time has ir. 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"Through the use of oil cially barred from the fall meeting of the World Bank, revenue leverage, they are the executive board of the seeking to force our ac- institution ruled. ceptance of the Palestine According to the New Liberation Organization as York Times, State and an official participant in the Treasury Department offi- bank's annual meeting. cials said the 21-member "The fact remains that executive board voted in a the PLO does not have any private session last Friday legitimate economic status, to deny the PLO observer but is a leading terrorist status at the meeting by organization. Its acceptance upholding the board's deci- in the bank and the issues it sion last year to freeze the seeks to interject would un- existing number of official doubtedly open the gates for other radical political observers. Intense lobbying by the groups in a process that Reagan Administration op- could be the beginning of posing the admission of the the end of the bank." P L 0 to th e m e t i n g w a s l in k ed to th e beo a r a 's a ec i - Insurance Pays sion• —Off for Arabs, Secretary of State Ale- xander M. Haig, Jr., ap- Jews in Israel pealed to his counter- JERUSALEM (JNI) — parts in Britain, France, Nearly 75 percent of the Japan, West Germany, 20,000 Arab families of East Italy and Canada to bar Jerusalem receive regular the PLO from the meet- benefits from Bituakh Leumi (National Insurance) g. In the U.S. House, Con- for their children, housing gressman William Broom- or pensions. field (R-Mich.) wrote to A total 100,000 Jewish Haig opposing the admis- and Arab Jerusalem sion of the PLO to the World families benefit from _ Bank gathering. Bituakh Leumi. 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