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Neither xander Yakir, the 29-year- option seems possible at the old son of long-term re- present time," the 37-year- fuseniks Evgeny and old credit analyst, now an Rimma Yakir, was arrested American citizen, said in Moscow on Monday, ac- while relating his harass- cording to the Greater New ment after filing an applica- York Conference on Soviet tion for an exit visa from the Jewry. Yakir, an electrical Soviet Union. Eight experts on regional engineer, is being charged with refusing military serv- religious issues, religious issues in specific countries, ice. The Yakirs first applied and law and practices of the for exit visas to Israel in Warsaw Pact states tes- 1973, and were refused on tified before the committee the grounds that the senior chaired by Sens. Charles Yakir's routine work as a Percy (R-Ill.) and Claiborne mechanical engineer was Pell (D-R.I.), who are co- secret. He was subsequently sponsors of the bill. In his opening remarks, fired from his job, and the family has been subjected to Percy emphasized the need considerable KGB harass- for regular summit confer- ment throughout the past ences between the leaders of the United States and the decade. In spite of Soviet persecu- Soviet Union. Dr. William Korey, direc- tion, the Yakirs have par- ticipated in informal Jewish tor of International Policy cultural and religious ac- Research of the B'nai B'rith tivities with fellow Moscow International Policy Coun- refuseniks. cil, told the panel, "the If convicted on the charge plight of Soviet Jews has of refusing military service, reached crisis proportions the younger Yakir could which warrant the urgent face from one to three years attention of the interna- in prison. tional community." In Washington, Rep. Ben- Korey said the most criti- jamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) in- cal aspects of their plight troduced a bill in the House are: anti-Semitism in the instructing the U.S. delega- Soviet mass media; anti- tion to raise the issue of Jewish discrimination in Soviet violations of interna- higher education and em- tional laws governing the ployment; the official drive mails at the 19th Congress against the study and teach- of the Universal Postal ing of the Hebrew language Union (UPU) which opened and Jewish history; the cur- Tuesday in Hamburg, West rent attempt to sever links Germany. between Soviet Jews and The bill also asks the their brethren abroad; and UPU to consider the viola- the virtual halting of tions and possible sanctions Jewish emigration. against the violators. A Dr. Ernest Gordon, similar measure was intro- president of the Christian duced in the Senate recently Rescue Effort for the Eman- by Rudy Boschwitz (R- cipation of Dissidents Minn.) (CREED), described Soviet Gilman's bill is the result repression against Evangel- of year-long hearings in ical Christians, Menno- New York City on "Soviet nites, Baptists and Pen- mail sabotage" at which tecostals. "The Communist witnesses representing dominated countries of Christian, Jewish, Ukrai- Eastern Europe seem to fol- nian, Russian-American low the same pattern as that and professional and aca- initiated by the Soviet demic groups testified that Union," Gordon stated. the Soviet authorities were Meanwhile, in spite of the deliberately interfering searing heat, dozens of Con- with the overseas mails. gressmen gathered along The American Jewish with human rights activists Committee appealed to the and clergymen on the steps chairman of the House Sub- of the U.S. Capitol last week committee on Postal Opera- to demonstrate their opposi- tions and Services to try to tion to the Soviet Union's persuade the Soviet Union harassment and repression to stop obstructing the de- of Soviet Jews and other livery of mail from the minorities there. West. In all, some 300 people In Washington, Yuli Tar- participated in the second takovsky testified at hear- • annual Congressional Fast ings before the Senate and Prayer Vigil for Soviet Fireign Relations Commit- Jewry. tee on protecting and prom- • The demonstration, one of oting religious rights in the largest Congressional Eastern Europe and the protests in support of Soviet Soviet Union. The hearings Jewry ever held, was spon- are related to a bill intro- sored by Reps. John Porter duced in the Senate on June (R-Ill.), Robert Mrazek (D- 7. N.Y.), and Jack Kemp (R- "For most Jews there are N.Y.) and Sens. Carl Levin only two alternatives: to as- (D-Mich.) and John Heinz (R-Pa.); and Rep. Tom Lan- tos (D-Calif.). President Reagan, in a message sent to the vigil, said the repressive policies of the Soviet authorities, "violates the standards of behavior which are incum- bent upon all governments and are enshrined in inter- national covenants. All Americans should join in the prayerful efforts to sup- port those struggling to exercise their fundamental rights. We will continue to seek opportunities to encourage the Soviet Union to respect the human rights and to restore the indi- vidual dignity of Soviet Jews." In New York ten re- fuseniks, who have been trying in vain, for more than a decade to obtain exit visas in order to immigrate to Israel, called on the Israel government and world Jewry for help, in a petition made public by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). The signatories to thepet- ition, dated May 5, are: Ar- kady Mai and his wife, Helen Seidel; Aleksandr Lerner; Vladimir Slepak; Abe Stolar; Naum Kogan; and Lev Ovsishcher, all of Moscow; the brothers Isai and Grigory Goldstein of Tbilisi; and Dmitry Golenko, of Tashkent. In a related development, a new book, whose authorship is attributed to the chairman of the Anti- Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, Gen. David Dragunsky, and which con- tinues the attack on "Zionist propaganda," has been issued in Moscow, the World Jewish Congress re- ported. According to WJC monitoring sources in Lon- don, Tess reported that Dragunsky's book — What Letters Tell About — analyzes letters sent to the anti-Zionist Committee and was published in Moscow by the Novosti Press Agency. The book allegedly quotes letters to Soviet citizens of Jewish nationality ad- dressed to the author. Tass stated that in these letters Soviet Jews "come out against the attempts of the bourgeois propaganda to impose Israel upon them as their-homeland." The book also includes letters "from those who yielded to the Zionist prop- aganda and , sentenced themselves into exile." These letters, Tass noted "denounce Zionism and condemns the Zionist ringleaders." Dragunsky wrote that most of those who had sub- mitted applications ex- pressing their desire to leave for Israel had in fact . no intention to go there and settled in Western Europe, North America, and even in Australia. As for those who reached the "promised land," he said, they are usu- ally quick to leave it. In New York, a press con- ference that was to take place with Aaron Vergalis, editor of the Soviet Yiddish language periodical Sovietische Heimland, was abruptly cancelled to the surprise of journalists who packed a room in the World Church Center across from the United Nations. The cancellation was at- tributed to a sudden illness that pievented Vergalis from appearing, an expla- nation that was greeted with skepticism by the as- sembled reporters. The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews reported that in response to the enormous outcry by the Western world to the March 20 Odessa raids on Russian Jewish homes, confiscated religious items including mezuzot, menorahs and challah cover. The KGB .conducted the search under th guise of looking for weapons. Israeli envoy meets with U.S. officials Washington (JTA) — Meir Rosenne, Israel's Am- bassador to the United States, met for nearly two hours last Thursday "in a very cordial and warm at- mosphere" with Secretary of State George Shultz, Under Secretary for Politi- cal Affairs Michael Arma- cost and Assistant Secre- tary of State Richard Mur- phy, the Israeli Embassy said. The luncheon meeting at the State Department was at the invitation of Shultz. Rosenne later met for 45 minutes with Vice President George Bush to discuss current events in the Middle East in a meet- ing that was also described as "very cordial" by an em- bassy official. A State De- partment spokesman had not comment on the content of the meetings last week. U.S. Jews on the move New York (ZINS) — The sun belt states of the south and west are, now home for one-third of America's Jews, according to the 1984 American Jewish Yearbook. The states with the largest Jewish populations in 1983 were New York, 1,869,190; California, 789,260; and Florida, 479,180.