THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 9, 1982 19
Michigan Action Committee To Free The Stolar Family
Honorary Chairmen:
CONGRESSMAN
WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD
CONGRESSMAN
WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD
STATE SENATOR
DOUG ROSS
STATE SENATOR
WILLIAM SEDERBURG
MAYOR
COLEMAN A. YOUNG
Committee
Senator Carl Levin
Congressman Donald Albosta
Congressman James Blanchard
Congressman John Conyers
Congressman Jim Dunn
Congressman William Ford
Congressman Dale Kildee
Congressman Mark Siljander
Congressman Bob Traxler
Congressman Howard Wolpe
Minority Leader Robert VanderLaan
Senator Phil Arthurhultz
Senator Gary Corbin
Senator Alvin DeGrow
Senator John Engler
Senator R. Robert Geake
Senator Mitch Irwin
Senator Kerry Kammer
Senator Stephen Monsma
Senator Michael O'Brien
Senator Edward Pierce , M.D.
Senator David Plawecki
Senator Harold Scott
Senator Jackie Vaughn III
Senator Robert Young
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Representative Mary Brown
Representative Perry Bullard
Representatiie Joe Conroy
Representative Alan Cropsey
Representative Dan DeGrow
Representative James Dressel
Representative Mat Dunaskiss
Representative Dennis Dutko
Representative Daisy Elliott
Representative Bob Emerson
Representative David Evans
Representative Richard Fessler
Representative Richard Fitzpatrick
Representative Joe Forbes
Representative Carl Gnodtke
Representative Patrick Harrington
Representative Paul Henry
Representative Paul Hillegonds
Representative David Hollister
Representative Morris Hood, Jr.
Representative Shirley Johnson
Representative H. Lynn Jondahl
Representative John Kelsey
Representative Burton Leland
Representative Everitt Lincoln
Representative John Maynard
Representative Ruth McNamee
Representative Matthew McNeely
Representative Charles Mueller
Representative Ernest Nash
Representative Ralph Ostling
Representative John Otterbacher
Representative Jeffrey Padden
Representative Francis Spaniola
Representative Debbie Stabenow
Representative Lad Stacey
Representative John Strand
Representative Ethel Terrell
Representative Claude Trim
Representative Don Van Singel
flepresentative Gary Vanek
Representative Juanita Watkins
Representative L. Jean Willoughby
Representative Richard Young
Representative Joe Young, Jr.
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A PLEA
TO HELP FREE
AN AMERICAN JEW
IN THE
SOVIET UNION
Dear Friends,
Four years ago a handful of legislators joined me in a campaign to free Dina
Rifkin and her family from the Soviet Union. After a letter writing campaign in which
hundreds of people joined to exert pressure on the State Department and the Soviet
Union, we were successful. Dina Rifkin and her children live in Oak Park today.
At the request of the Detroit Committee for Soviet Jewry, Mayor Coleman
Young, Congressmen Brodhead and Broomfield, and State Senator William Seder-
burg joined me last year in another campaign: to free Abe Stolar and his family from
the Soviet Union. The response from Legislators and Congressmen has been
overwhelming.
Abe Stolar is an American born in Chicago. He and his family, after living in the
Soviet Union, have been denied the right to leave the country since 1975. The Soviet
authorities have refused to honor the Stolar's American passports.
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It is now time to expand our campaign and to ask others to join with the
impressive list of public officials who already support the Michigan Committee to
Free the Stolar Family. Our efforts to bring public pressure to bear on the State
Department and the Soviet Union worked in freeing the Rifkins. I am confident that
such efforts again will free the Stolar family. I invite and encourage you to join our
committee by writing to one or all of the addresses listed below.
With best wishes,
SENATOR DOUG ROSS
15th Senatorial District
Mr. Abe Stolar
Prosp. Vernadskogo
117 Apt. 151
Moscow 117571
R.S.F.S.R.
USSR
Secretary of State
Alexander Haig
State Department
Washington, D.C. 20520
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
Embassy USSR
1125 Sixteenth St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
President Ronald Reagan
White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
30000 Northwestern Hwy. • Farmington Hills, Michigan 48018
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