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Lathrup Landing *• T.IrJ1X.I.IPPtielt2011•1111S117111r.gS 4_ g ., s 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." . ) 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.