28 Friday, July 22, 1983
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Rumored U.S.-USSR Compromise Is Hit
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Avital Shcharansky
warned last Thursday that
if the U.S. signs a document
ending the Madrid Confer-
ence on Human Rights and
Security, it would endanger
her husband, Anatoly, as
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well as the entire human
rights movement in the
Soviet Union.
She told a press confer-
ence at the Capitol that she
was "very upset" when she
heard about the possibility
of the U.S. signing the com-
promise agreement. She
was in Washington to ad-
dress a two-hour vigil on the
Capitol steps marking the
fifth anniversary of the end
of her husband's trial in
Moscow, at which time he
was sentenced to 13 years
imprisonment. Mrs.
Shcharansky also met
British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher in Lon-
don last weekend.
About 100 persons
attended the Capitol
rally, some of them join-
ing in the call by the
Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews to fast all
day. In addition, some
100 members of Con-
gress, including Rep.
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
participated in the event
which was organized by
Reps. Robert Mrazek
(D.N.Y.) and John Porter
(R-I11.).
Reports that the U.S. will
sign the compromise Mad-
rid document were coupled
with claims that there were
assurances from the USSR
that it will allow some dis-
sidents to emigrate by the
end of the year. But none of
the more prominent ones
would be among them, such
as Shcharansky and Yuri
Orlov, both of whom are in
prison, and Andrei
Sakharov who has been
exiled to Gorky.
Mrs.
Shcharansky
stressed that if the U.S.
signed the agreement be-
fore her husband and other
dissidents were released, it
would doom them. She said
her husband has become a
symbol both within and out-
side the USSR. She said
Shcharansky has been used
by the Soviet government to
threaten Jewish would-be
emigrants, many of whom
are told that if they don't
remain quiet, "you are
going to be another
Shcharansky."
Mrs. Shcharansky, who
met with Secretary of State
George Shultz when he was
in Jerusalem recently, siad
he assured her that the U.S.
would continue to do its best
"to save her husband."
President Reagan, in a
telegram to the rally,
stressed that "the issue of
Soviet Jewry is of high
priority to this Adminis-
tration." He said the U.S.
"will continue to seek
opportunities to encour-
age the Soviet Union to
respect human rights and
to live in accord with the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and other
Envoy Dismisses Threat
of Soviet Intimidation
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Benjamin Netanyahu, Is-
rael's deputy ambassador to
the United States, pledged
here that Israel will not be
intimidated by a Soviet
presence in Syria.
"We have no desire for a
confrontation with Syria or
the Soviets," he told more
than 600 people last week at
a gathering commemorat-
ing the 43rd anniversary of
the death of Zionist leader
Ze'ev Jabotinsky. "But, if
Israel is compelled to do so,
Israel will defend itself.
During the war of attrition,
we shot down Soviet pilots.
We are not afraid."
Netanyahu also told the
meeting sponsored by the
Herut Zionists of American
and the Max Nordau Circle,
at the Roosevelt Hotel, that
American Jewry should
serve as "troops" in the
"propaganda war" being
fought in America as a
counterforce to the massive
Arab media effort to sway
U.S. opinion against Is-
rael... Meanwhile, Rabbi
Dov Aharoni-Fisch, the new
executive director of the
Herut Zionists, reported
that the Herut Zionists of
America have established a
national college organiza-
tion, Tagar Student Ac-
tivists, to mobilize support
for Israel on America's
campuses.
Four Moscow
Jews Arrested
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Four Moscow Jews were ar-
rested last Friday night for
holding a private prayer
service, the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
reported. Of the approx-
imately one dozen persons
present at the service, those
arrested were Mikhail Ab-
romov, Igor Briskman, and
Mikhail Rudman.
The arresting officer,
Capt. Mikhail Stepanov,
told them, "Until you leave
this country, you will live by
our rules," the SSSJ re-
ported. The apartment's
owner, Mark Feldman, was
arrested when he went to
the police station to ask
about his friends. All were
given 15-day sentences.
The spokesman said that
such sentences usually are
served in local jails but had
no information on the four
arrestees.
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London Vigil
for Yosef Begun
LONDON (JTA) — Soviet
Jewry activists have begun
a daily vigil outside the
Soviet Embassy in London
in anticipation of the trial of
Moscow mathematician Dr.
Yosef Begun, a self-
employed teacher of He-
brew.
He is charged with
"anti-Soviet propaganda,"
but according to the Na-
tional Council of Soviet
Jewry, Begun, for whom
this will be the third trial in
six years, has offended the
Soviet authorities because
of his determination to
Tuesday's flight marks teach Hebrew to fellow
the 300th such caravan of Soviet Jews waiting to emi-
olim (new immigrants) grate to Israel.
transported by El Al Air-
Begun's trial, expected to
lines in the 18 years the open in Moscow next week,
Aliya Center has been in is regarded with particular
operation.
concern because his trial
follows the Soviet
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authorities' claim that
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish emigration from the
program to provide both Soviet Union is complete.
men and women with coun-
Begun's plight, since he
seling about their miscar- first applied unsuccessfully
riage experiences is being to leave for Israel in 1971,
sponsored by the Jewish epitomizes the desire of
Women's Research Center, many more Jews to go on
a project of the New York aliya and of the Soviet
section of the National authorities' efforts to sup-
Council of Jewish Women press them. Vague "reasons
(NCJW).
of state" were given for the
frequent rejection of Be-
Author Harold Robbins' gun's emigration applica-
real name is Harold Rubin. tiOns.
Area Family on Special
Israel Aliya Center Flight
An Oak Park family of six
will be among the largest
single group of North
Americans to make aliya to
Israel when they board an
El Al plane in New York
Tuesday.
The flight, which will
carry 317 people who plan to
make Israel their home, was
organized to celebrate the
18th anniversary of the Is-
rael Aliya Center.
Aron and Rebecca Sigler,
of Oak Park, and their four
children are among the 237
passengers who will live in
Israel beginning next week.
The flight will also trans-
port a group of 80 adults
participating in the Mitzva
Elef Program, a one-month,
pre-aliya experience.
international agreements
to which it has sub-
scribed."
At both the press confer-
ence and the raPy, Mrs.
Shcharansky expressed
concern about the health of
her husband who was seen
by his mother and brother
on July 5 for the first time in
18 months.
She said he is still weak
from his fast which began
last Yom Kippur and ended
Jan. 15, that he appears to
be suffering from chest
pains and is still suffering
from the effects of beatings
he received from prison
guards when he was being
force-fed But, she noted, he
remains optimistic.