THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6 Friday, October 15, 1982
U.S. Lawmaker Denied USSR Visa
If He Wants to Visit Shcharansky
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Sen. Paul Tsongas
(D.Mass.) was told by a
Soviet Embassy official
here that he would not re-
ceive a visa to go to the
Soviet Union if his purpose
was to visit prisoner of con-
science Anatoly
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Shcharansky in the Chis-
tipol Prison where the
Jewish activist is conduct-
ing a hunger strike.
Tsongas said this is what
he was told by Segey Chep-
verikov, a counselor at the
Embassy, when he and
Sens. John Heinz (R-Pa.)
and Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
met with the official for
more than a half hour last
week.
The three Senators went
into the embassy after a
press conference was held
across the street at which
Avital Shcharansky said
she fears for her husband's
life, noting that he was in
very bad health when his
mother, Ida Milgrom visited
him last January.
Soviet Embassy offi-
cials will not see Mrs.
Shcharansky, Tsongas
reported. She waited out-
side while the lawmakers
were inside.
Shcharansky started his
indefinite hunger strike
Sept. 27, Yom Kippur eve,
because he has not been
allowed to send or receive
mail from his family or have
family members visit him
since his mother's visit over
eight months ago. Mrs. Mil-
grom said in Moscow last
week that a long hunger
strike would kill her son.
Tsongas said that Chep-
verikov told the three Sena-
tors that the climate be-
tween the U.S. and USSR
was very poor and that if
this climate persists, it was
"highly unlikely" that any
progress will be made on
this issue or any other.
Tsongas said he stressed
to the embassy official that
he and his two colleagues
were not "rightwing anti-
Soviet" Senators but were
among those who sought an
improvement in relations
with the USSR.
Levin said he pointed
out that one way to im-
prove relations would be
to release Shcharansky
and others in similar
situations, which could
be seen as "a sign, a sig-
nal" from the Soviet
Union.
At the press conference,
Heinz said Shcharansky
was a "symbol" of the
human rights struggle in
the Soviet Union and be-
cause of this it was neces-
sary not to forget the others
who were in a similar situa-
tion.
Although the three Sena-
tors did not get to see Am-
bassador Anatoly Dobry-
nin, Tsongas left a letter for
the Soviet envoy "formally
requesting a visa to go to the
Soviet Union and visit
Anatoly Shcharansky in
Chistipol Prison to deter-
mine for myself his mental
and physical condition."
He also urged Dobrynin
"in the strongest terms
possible" to allow
Shcharansky contact with
his family by mail and per-
sonal visits, to release him
from prison, "and most im-
portantly in accordance
with the Final Act of the
Helsinki Accords, to allow
this courageous man to
emigrate from the Soviet
Union."
The press conference
at the embassy was part
of a four-day visit to
Washington organized by
the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry.
In a related development,
Prof. Grigory Freiman, who
revealed details of dis-
crimination against Jews in
the Soviet mathematics es-
tablishment, has been given
permission to emigrate with
his family, the Greater New
York Conference on Soviet
Jewry reported.
Freiman first applied for
an exit visa in 1980 and was
refused without any reason.
A respected mathematics
professor at the University
of Kalinin, Freiman was
dismissed from his post fol-
lowing the publication of his
"samizdat" essay charging
that a group of prominent
anti-Semitic
math-
ematicians had effectively
eliminated Soviet Jews
from the field.
Freiman had come under
intense pressure from the
authorities recently. Last
month he was summoned by
the KGB in connection with
the arrest of two Soviet
Jewish mathematicians,
Boris Kanevsky and Valery
Senderov, who had accumu-
lated statistics on anti-
Semitism in Soviet aca-
demic institutions.
While Jews have made
great contributions to
Soviet mathematics in the
past, Freiman, along with
Kanevsky and Senderov,
reported that Soviet univer-
sities administer excep-
tionally difficult admission
exams to Jews and reject
almost all Jewish appli-
cants. Soviet athorities re-
fuse to grant degrees for dis-
sertations by Jews and
editors of some Soviet
mathematical journals will
not publish research
papers by Jews.
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Service for Pope
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Jerusalem Mayor Teddy
Kollek has publicly refused
an invitation from the
Apostolic delegate in
Jerusalem to attend a serv-
ice marking the fourth 4n-
niversary of the inaugura-
tion of Pope John Paul II.
In a message to the dele-
gate, Msgr. William Carew,
Kollek said he must decline
in. view of "the astonishing
fact" that the Pope had
granted an audience last
month to PLO chief Yasir
Arafat.
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Haaretz reports that an un-
named Druze officer in the
Israel Defense Forces may
soon be promoted ,to the
rank of brigadier general.
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