6 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 22, 1983 TERRY I. BERLIN Attorney At Law FAST, COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL SERVICES phone 353-1474 Kansas Congressman Meets Refusniks on USSR Tour (Continued from Page 1) JULY 3 USSR because they have Meeting with refuseniks. been categorized as Among them were: "enemies of the state." Most Evgeny Lein, a math- of us in the delegation, how- ematician who was impris- ever, felt that anyone wh( oned, who is now a stoker in wanted to see us already a bath house; also tutors a was in jeopardy and it wa: IIII bit. Five years ago he important to let them kno v applied for a visa to Israel. we cared about their free His wife also lost her job. He dom. earns 60 rubles a month and Curiously, before we left pays 50 for rent. He was London, we were told by supposed to have kicked a embassy personnel that oil] military man, but was refusenik visit in Leningra ( really arrested for helping was going to be scheduled a with Jewish history lessons. the same time as our trip to He was put in jail before the Hermitage, one of th( the trial and spent 61/2 great museums in th ( months in prison. His visa world. Could this be mer( was rejected because he was Custom Laminated Furniture. coincidence, or could th ( in the army once and Residential & Commercial Soviet officials have decide ( authorities said he knew that fewer members of th ( Graphic Wall Design state secrets. delegation would want t c Abram Kagan, senior KEITH SCHARE visit with refuseniks so a: 3 researcher in the Soviet Designer not to miss the Hermitage' Academy of Sciences, We shall see. 569 2462 543 0203 applied for a visa in 1977 and maintains his cur- rent job because of strong support from American scientists. This ...„ k,,a. is an atypical situation. The Institute of Hyd- rometereology expelled his son. Some institutes, which are less prestigi- ous, will admit Jews. Medicine has a very strong anti-Semetic tra- - Of The Finest Suits dition here. Sport Coats & Slacks Jacob Rabinowitz — his wife and children got visas In The Country! ,„. and left three years ago. His son is at Brandeis near Bos- ton, He said the situation with Jewish people is get- ting worse. They cannot get reg. $225-$375 - SUITS together to talk about Jewish history; can speak NOW $ Hebrew only in a small group. SLACKS $55-$65 values We also met Evgeny Matskyn, a refusenik who From $ 295° has been corresponding with two of my Kansas con- SHORT SLEEVE SHIRTS stituents, Rick and Betty TIES BELTS Shore in Wichita. An unbe- A TREMENDOUS SELECTION!! lievable coincidence. My wife and I were invited to his flat. 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On our way out of the Hermitage, a consulate official told me that there is a rapidly growing Bap- tist movement in the USSR which is a thorn in the Soviets' side and may prove problematic with the number of growing minorities in the country. No matter how they try to keep religion down, it seems to have fertile de- velopment. The other interesting point he made was in de- scribing the basic difference between Russia and America. "In the U.S.," he said, "it is presumed you can do whatever you want un- less you are told not to. In Russia, you can do nothing, unless you are told specifi- cally it is authorized." Quite a difference. JULY 4 We went to Evgeny Matskyn's flat and picked up a gift for the Shore's son, who had been Bar Mitzva in Wichita and was "twinned" with Matskyn's son. I began to realize the true nature of the totalitarian state. Soviet escorts told the American Embassy staff that they were very dis- turbed that we had seen re- fuseniks in Leningrad and they would not guarantee the safety of American Con- gressmen if we persisted. Since we broke no laws; the American Embassy staffer said it was typical Soviet "bull-" and told the Soviet Official so. He also said, however, that Embassy per- sonnel were often harrased if they cooperated in setting up refusenik visits. Disturb- ing, but it did not deter us in seeing dissidents. At a reception at the American Embassy honor- ing Independence Day, my wife, Rhoda, met Vladimir, a concert pianist who had asked to emigrate. Since then, he had been blacklisted. He told us that KGB agents were all over the place and that we had to be careful not to trust any- thing the Russians said. There was no question that we were being watched at all times and that our phones were being moni- tored. Some of my col- leagues received crank calls in their hotel rooms, which we were later told was a way the KGB could get a voice track for identification pur- poses when they would "bug" us. Moscow. Kremlin. We met with members of the Supreme Soviet. On the issue of human rights and Soviet Jewish emigration, they said only 800 to 2,000 people have applied for exist visas. They said there were no human rights failures in the USSR. Then they counterat- tacked with an amazing barrage: poverty and crime in the U.S., Martin Luther King's death, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, two mil- lion homeless in the U.S. We reacted forcefully on these and other issues, such as the newly formed Anti- Zionist Committee, Poland and Afghanistan. JULY 6 We met with the Soviets in smaller sessions on trade and economics. After these sessions, we had lunch in the Kremlin palace once occupied by the Czars. Icons and original Byzantine church art are all over the place. It is ironic how much church art and how many beautiful Byzantine churches dominate the Kremlin and Moscow. Most of the churches are closed though. In the Kremlin you see so many evidences of the Or- thodox Church. I asked why the religious artifacts and symbols had not been de- stroyed when the Com- munists took over. It was explained that it is all tied up with Russian nationalism and history. We visited Lev, a Soviet refusenik. It was very de- pressing. He divorced his wife several years ago just so she could get to the U.S. His children and grandchildren now live in the U.S. He has applied 19 times to leave Russia. He served us tea and cookies . . . Tonight was a cloak- and-dagger operation. Instead of going to the ballet, we drove way out to the Moscow suburbs to see two more refuseniks, Sonia and Leonid, young (mid 30s) and very intelli- gent people. They talked in great depth about their despair at not being able to leave. The argued that while it is important for Americans to write letters to them and otherwise demonstrate pub- lic support for Soviet Jewry, the Soviets are not likely to let the thousands of Jews leave and go to Israel or the U.S. until general relations improve between the US and USSR. They were de- lighted that a high-level delegation of Americans were actually talking to the Soviet leadership in the Kremlin. And while they urged that the content of our talks be strong and direct on the subject of human rights, they also asked us to con- tinue face to face, bilateral talks, even if no agreements were reached in these first meetings. The last three or four years of American- Soviet relationships, they said, had produced very lit- tle progress for the hun- dreds of thousands who wanted to leave, and a change was needed. JULY 7 Tomorrow we go to Soviet Armenia and then home. It's hard to sleep. The re- fuseniks keep going through my mind. Each one. The courage and despair, the devotion and fear. And the hope. There is — no matter how faint — hope. There's also my anger. I feel such anger. (Editor's note: Con- gressman Glickman's wife, former Detroiter Rhoda Yura, is the sister of Mrs. Emery (Diane) Klein. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Sam Yura of Farmington Hills. Mrs. Klein is president of the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of Hadassah and her husband is active in many Jewish causes. (Glickman represents Kansas' Fourth District, which includes the city of Wichita and four rural counties. A Wichita Attor- ney, he had served a term as president of the Wichita school board when he was first elected to Congress in 1976.) U.S. Maps Differentiate WB, Gaza from Jordan and Israel WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department has finally pinned down its offi- cial policy on United States government maps that show the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The new maps that will be used by all U.S. government agencies will show the areas in different colors than Jordan and Is- rael. For years, U.S. maps have shown the West Bank as part of Jordan. Martin Mil- ler, a Washington area resi- dent, long complained about this to the State Depart- ment and when he received no satisfaction, he enlisted the aid of his Congressman, Rep. Michael Barnes (D- Md.). In March, the Depart- ment of State Bulletin showed a new map which included a series of dashes separating the West Bank from Jordan. But in an announce- ment to the press, the de- partment said that, from now on, all maps which include the West Bank and Gaza will show them in a different color from Israel and Jordan and "bear the legend 'Israel- occupied' and 'status to be determined.' " The department noted that a_ memorandum with the new maps stresses that they reflect U.S. policy in the Middle East. Moses had only one brother, Aaron.