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Zunshain was arrested in March when he and three of his friends attempted to publicly protest the denial of their exit visas in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Mos- cow. The SSSJ also reported that Anatoly Shcharansky, who was scheduled to be vis- ited by his mother and brother last Thursday, his tenth wedding anniversary, suddenly had permission for the visit withdrawn. Shcharansky's wife, Avital, emigrated to Israel, the day after their wedding and has spent the last ten years seeking to gain her hus- band's freedom from the USSR. Meanwhile, Aleksandr 60% Horizontal 1" Blinds Horizontal 1 8 2" Wood Blinds Vertical Blinds Verosol Blinds By Window Shades Woven Woods Carpet Anso IV • Levolor • Delmar • Sun Pro • Graber • Galaxy Mills The Great Cover-Up (by appointment) 5665 W. Maple Rd. W. Bloomfield, Mi. 48033 851.1125 (Sasha) Yakir, the son of long term refuseniks Evgeny and Rimma Yakir, is scheduled to stand trial this month on charges of "draft evasion," according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). Arrested in Moscow on June 18, he faces up to three years in prison. His family applied to leave for Israel in 1973. The NCSJ also reported that Lev Elbert, the 35- year-old construction engineer and long-time par- ticipant in the Jewish emig- ration and cultural move- ment, was released on schedule on June 20 after serving one year in prison for alleged "draft evasion." He returned to his wife, Inna and son Karmi in Kiev to discover that his phone was disconnected, the NCSJ said. Elbert has been wait- ing with his family for over eight years for permission to join their relatives in Is- rael. The NCSJ also reported when they signed the docu ment. Porter's resolution desig nates Aug. 1 as Helsink Human Rights Day. It calla upon the President to reas- sert the United States commitment to the Helsinki Accords and to continue hir effort to achieve full im. plementation of the human rights and humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Accords by raising the issue of noncompliance with authorities of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, a group of 20 Leningrad refuseniks has declared June 28 to be an International Day of Prayer to emphasize the ancient Jewish commandment of Pidyon Shevuim, the rescue of captives. . Magazine finds no anti-Semitism in Nicaragua New York — Charges that the Sandinista gov- ernment in Nicaragua is anti-Semitic and has been guilty of discrimination against the country's Jewish community are un- founded, according to a re- port in the current issue of Reform Judaism. The magazine, which is fear of arrest and exile to published by the Union of prison and labor camps on American Hebrew Congre- trumped-up charges. gations, reports that the Thousands have been sepa- charges originated with a rated from their families small group of Nicaraguan and seek to leave the op- Jews now living in the pression of the Soviet Hillel director United States who were Union, yet the Russian Washington — Larry former supporters of the authorities deny their very existence. How could over Moses, executive director of Somoza regime. "The Sandinistas can be 200 men of God turn a blind the Bureau of Jewish Edu- eye and make themselves cation of San Francisco, charged with many sins, in- Marin County and the cluding insensitivity and party to both the denial and the oppression itself?" Peninsula, as been named ineptness," the report said. international director of "But no credible evidence to Jacobs asked. B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda- support a charge of anti- Jacobs discounted the ob- tions. Semitism could be found." servations of church and synagogue services which were shown these clergy- men by the Russian authorities as "no more in- dicative of religious free- dom in the Soviet Union than Stalin's show trials of Buenos Aires (JTA) — Fayt, in his acceptance re- the '30s were evidence of Carlos Fayt, Minister of the marks, called anti- justice in its legal system. Argentine Supreme Court, Semitism "the cancer of the "such institutions are human mind." He said "I run by government paid and a long-time foe of anti- controlled officials and lack Semitism and champion of learned to love the the rights of Soviet Jews, Jewish people without any more than just Bibles and was presented with the an- ulterior motive." He called religious articles. They are designed to stifle true reli- nual Human Rights Award for strengthening efforts on gious feeling in the Russian of the Latin American behalf of Soviet Jewry. people, in accordance with branch of the World Jewish Faigon noted that Fayt atheistic ideology of the Congress here Sunday. The presentation was had been a vice president of Communist state." the Committee for Soviet Jacobs said he was made by Gregorio Faigon, Jewry when he was named chairman of the WJC Latin shocked "that American Minister of the Supreme clergymen, who enjoy the American branch at cere- Court and was a participant liberties of the United monies attended by Vice in the second Brussels con- States, could do no better President Victor Martinez ference on Soviet Jewry. than express their 'irrita- of Argentina. Martinez tion that the harmony of praised Fayt as one of the Hilel Rubison, Secretary their visit had been marred' country's outstanding fig- General of the DAIA, de- ures in the field of human by the pleas of their op- scribed the ceremony as "a pressed co-religionists for rights. He was nominated vibrant demonstration for for the award by the DAIA, the rule of human rights in religious freedom in Rus- the central representative Argentina and in all of sia." body of Argentine Jewry. Latin America." • Young Israel leader blasts church body on Russia visit New York (JTA) — Harold M. Jacobs, president of the National Council of Young Israel, condemned the statements issued by leaders of the National Council of Churches follow- ing a visit by more than 200 American clergy to the Soviet Union as a "deliber- ate and flagrant collabora- tion with the Russian prop- aganda campaign to cover up its wholesale violations of human rights." The Young Israel leader compared the statements of the tour's spokesmen to the actions of French President Francois Mitterrand, who, visiting the Soviet Union at the same time, raised the issue of the violations of the human rights of Andrei Sakharov. Jacobs asked, "If a socialist head of state could find the moral courage to speak out on the denial of the human rights of a single man and his wife in the Soviet Union, how could hundreds of American cler- gymen fail to register their protests at the systematic persecution of legitimate religious feelings of the Russian people? "We of the American Jewish community know that the Jewish religious heritage is being ruthlessly stamped out in the Soviet Union. Those Russian Jews who seek that heritage must meet and study in secret. They live in constant that 72 Jews were granted permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union dur- ing the month of June. The monthly average over the past six months has been 80 Jews, the NCSJ said. In a related development, Israelis had anxious hours Monday after Israel Radio reported that former President Ephraim Katzir had been detained by Soviet authorities in Leningrad. Telephone calls to his hotel and other locations in Leningrad yielded no in- formation. But Israeli offi- cials finally tracked him down at his Moscow hotel at noon Monday. Katzir de- clined to say anything of his experience by phone, other than that he was well. Katzir, a bio-chemist who was president of Israel from 1975 to 1978, went to the Soviet Union for a scientific meeting. According to Is- rael Radio he was visiting a family of refuseniks in Leningrad when he and other visitors were de- tained, apparently by the KGB. It is not known here for how long he was held. In Washington, Cong. John Porter (R-Ill.) intro- duced a resolution that marks the anniversary of the Helsinki Accords with, a call for the Soviet Union and Eastern nations to adhere to the human rights standards they agreed to World Jewish Congress honors human rights leader