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Paris (JTA) — The situa-
tion of Jewish activists in
the Soviet Union, bad all
along, has gotten worse in
recent months, according to
Theo Klein, president of the
Representative Council of
Major French Jewish
Organizations (CRIF), who
returned this week from a
four-day visit to Moscow as
the personal guest of
President Francois Mitter-
rand.
Klein was the first
Jewish leader to accompany
a head of government on an
official visit to the Soviet
Union. He told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency Sun-
day that Mitterrand's ges-
ture served to make the
public more aware of the
plight of Soviet Jewry and
probably made the Soviet
authorities more conscious
of the gravity with which
the West views this issue.
Klein expressed the hope
that the heads of other
Western governments
would follow Mitterrand's
example and invite Jewish
leaders to accompany them
to the USSR.
Klein attended all official
functions in Moscow. At his
request, Foreign Minister
Claude Cheysson raised the
issue of Soviet Jews at his
meetings with Soviet offi-
cials, especially Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko,
who is regarded by many in
the West as the most power-
ful man in the USSR after
President Konstantin
Chernenko.
In a related development,
Jewish activist Iosif Begun,
sentenced last October to 12
years in a Soviet labor camp
for "anti-Soviet agitation,"
has been sentenced to six
months in the camp prison
for reasons unknown, the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry (SSSJ) reported from
New York Monday.
According to the SSSJ,
friends speculate that his
imprisonment within the
Perm labor camp complex
could be punishment for in-
sisting on religious obser-
vance. But nothing definite
is known because his wife
and son were not permitted
to see him when they visited
the camp earlier this
month.
The SSSJ said Mrs.
Begun was informed at the
camp that her corre-
spondence with her hus-
band was being confiscated.
She also learned that before
his confinement to the camp
prison he was denied the
privilege of purchasing
small amounts of extra food
from the camp store and
that last month he was
placed in solitary confine-
ment for 15 days.
Since his sentence seven
months ago, Begun has
been permitted to see hid
wife only once, for 15 min-
utes, the SSSJ reported.
In Moscow, two Soviet
Jewish refuseniks are
scheduled to go on trial on
separate charges, Soviet
Jewish activist organiza-
tions in the U.S. reported
Tuesday.
Zakhar Zunshain, a re-
fusenik for more than two
years, will stand trial this
week for "the circulation of
fabrications known to be
false which defame the
Soviet state and social sys-
tem," according to the
Greater New York Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry
(GNYCSJ). The charge car-
ries a maximum sentence of
three years imprisonment.
Zunshain was arrested in
March when he and three
friends attempted publicly
to protest the denial of their
exit visas in front of the Bol-
shoi Theater.
Aleksandr (Sasha) Yakir,
the son of long term re-
fuseniks Evgeny and
Rimma Yakir, is scheduled
to stand trial in early July
on charges of "draft eva-
sion," according to the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ). Arrested in
Moscow last week, he faces
up to three years in prison.
Hart scores
Reagan Mideast
policy decisions
Washington (JTA) —
Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.),
speaking at a luncheon at
the National Press Club
here Friday, rapped the
Reagan Administratin for
its Middle East policy.
Sen. Hart, who still con-
siders himself in the run-
ning for the Democratic
Presidential nomination,
said in reply to a question:
"It is a tragedy that three-
and-a-half years have gone
by under this Administra-
tion with not only no real
progress in bringing the
hostilities and conflict (in
the Middle East) to an end,
but in fact, some steps that
have exacerbated that con-
flict, particularly the in-
creased militarization of all
the parties to the very dif-
ficult situation in Lebanon.
Hart added that "I think
it would take very little in
the case of the Middle East
and for that matter, in the
case of East-West arms
negotiations, to get the par-
ties to at least begin to talk
about sitting down at the
bargaining table, if not ac-
tually doing so ... I have
seen virtually no leadership
on the Middle East by this
President and.very little by
the Secretary of State to
bring the principal adver-
saries back to the table to
pursue the Camp David ac-
cords."
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His family applied to leave
for Israel in 1973.
Meanwhile, the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee has
hailed the decision of Voice
of America radio to double
the air time of a special
weekly program aimed at
Jewish audiences in the
Soviet Union.
"Such programs are abso-
lutely vital for sustaining
the cultural identify of Rus-
sian Jews," according to the
AJCommittee's Leo Navas.
The program, "Jewish Life,"
has been expanded from 15
to 30 minutes and will in-
clude feature segments de-
voted to Jewish customs and
history as well as conversa-
tions with prominent
Jewish personalities.
U.S. troops,
IDF stage
joint execise
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Israel Defense Force and
U.S. armed forces held their
first joint exercise this
month under an agreement
by both countries to provide
medical assistance in cases
of accident or natural disas-
ter to the forces of either in
the region.
Voice of Israel Radio,
quoting an IDF spokesman,
said the exercise involved
the transportation of
hypothetical wounded
American servicemen from
a U.S. vessel at sea in the
Eastern Mediterranean to
an Israeli hospital ashore.
The agreement between
the two countries, con-
cluded several months ago,
came about after Israel re-
proached the U.S. for not
using its nearby medical
facilities for Marines
wounded in the truck bomb
attack on their headquar-
ters in Beirut last October.
Jewish gays
San Francisco (JTA) —
The World Congress of Gay
and Lesbian Jewish Organ-
izations, in the-current
issue of its Digest, lists 19
Jewish homosexual groups
as members, with 15 in the
United States. Two are
listed in Europe, one in
Canada and one in Israel.
St. Paul search
St. Paul, Minn. (JTA) —
The United Jewish Fund
and Council has asked the
area Jewish community for
help in locating
memorabilia, documents
and photographs from the
past 50 years or more about
the existence of Jewish
agencies in St,: Paul.