• 6 Friday, August 3, 1984 * * * * * * * THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS * * * * * * * * NEWS • BLAME IT ON RIO Soviet Jews ask Mitterrand for help obtaining exit ,visas Choose from these or over 3,000 other titles • THE RIGHT STUFF • LASSITER *2.50 overnight or • BROADWAY DANNY ROSE *5.00 • EDUCATING RITA for 4 days • $35.00 MEMBERSHIP FEE VIDEO PLUS * VIDEO PLUS AUDIO Evergreen Plaza 12 Mile Rd at Evergreen 569-2330 *VHS & BETA* Old Orchard SHOPPING CENTER Orchard Lake at Maple 855-4070 *VHS ONLY* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * GET A BIG DEAL FRO M MICHIGAN'S BIG co, DEALER from $ 8,410 Y. YOU'RE BETTER OFF AT Buick Honda 28585 Telegraph Rd. Across From Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. 353-1300 • * • • • • • Paris (JTA) — A total of 118 Jewish families in the Soviet Union have written President Francois Mitter- rand asking him to help them obtain exit visas and leave for Israel. A copy of the letter was made avail- able to French reporters in Moscow. The 118 families from Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa and other major cities said they "feel no hostility towards the Soviet Union" but want to leave for their Discussing their 50-minute meeting with Soviet officials in own country, Israel. They San Francisco are from left: Reps. Gerald Kleczka, Thomas said their departure is ur- Foglietta and Sander Levin. gent because of their "un- bearable conditions." LeeNevas, chairman of Jewish sources say that raeli President Ephraim over 25,000 Jews in the Katzir by the Leningrad the AJCommittee's Inter- Soviet Union are still wait- KGB on July 1, the detain- national Relations Com- ing for their exit visas. The ment of U.S. diplomats Jon mission, made public the re- Soviet authorities have Purnell and George Glass sults of the study, conducted granted only 222 visas dur- for two hours by the Moscow by Allan L. Kagedan, AJ- ing the first four months of KGB on July 4, and the re- Committee policy analyst fusal by Soviet authorities and Soviet affairs specialist. 1984. Meanwhile, Aleksandr to grant Soviet citizens who Kagedan is an associate Yakir, a 29-year-old Jewish are married to Americans of Sidney Liskofsky, pro- the right to emigrate. refusenik from Moscow, was gram director of the AJ- scheduled to go on trial last Katzir said that after Committee's Jacob Blaus- Thursday of charges of three KGB agents blocked tein Institute for the Ad- "draft evasion," according his attempt to visit a Soviet vancement of Human to the National Conference Jew, they took him to an Rights. on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). Last year, according to office where they ques- Yakir was arrested on tioned him about his move- the study, a group of high June 18. Threatened with ments in the Soviet Union. school teachers of gifted induction into the army Katzir stated he was "de- mathematics students con- since his graduation from eply offended" by this inci- ducted a survey of 1983 ad- the Moscow Technical Insti- dent and noted that the missions to Moscow Univer- tute in 1977, he now faces KGB officers knew he had sity's physics and technical three years imprisonment. institute and mathematics been President of Israel. In a highly unusual ac- The report explained that department. tion for those arrested for the July 4 incident occurred The random survey iden- non-violent crime, the when the two U.S. dip- tified three categories of NCSJ reported that Yakir lomats tried to meet with applicants: those with was held in Moscow's Lina Tumanova, a Moscow "Jew" stamped on their Butyrka Prison pending human rights activist with identification papers; those trial rather than merely whom they had been in con- with one Jewish grand- having to sign a statement tact. parent; and those with no pledging not to leave Mos- The CSCE report added Jewish ancestry at all. cow. Kagedan states, "Of the that dissident sources af- The Yakir family has terwards told The Los students with no Jewish been waiting since 1973 for Angeles Times that ties, 76 percent were admit- permission to emigrate to Tumanova had been active ted to the physics and math- Israel. The NCSJ reported in Moscow for a number of ematics departments. that the Yakir family be- years in human rights Fifty-six percent with some lieves that they have been groups which the KGB had Jewish ancestry also gained denied permission to leave attempted to suppress. admission. But only 14 per- the Soviet Union because Soviet emigres in the U.S. cent of Jewish students Aleksandr's grandfather reported that Tumanova were admitted." and great-uncle were gen- was active in signing open At the same time, accord- erals in the Soviet Army, letters in support of various ing to Kagedan, the Anti- both of whom were later political prisoners, particu- Zionist Committee of the shot during the Stalinist larly from the Ukraine. Soviet Public is 'staging purges. Further evidence of the press conferences, using Another relative, Alek- official Soviet campaign to Jews who seek to refute sandr's uncle, Pietr, was discourage unofficial con- claims that anti-Semitism jailed after a show trial in tacts between Soviet citi- exists in the Soviet Union's 1972 for documenting zens and foreigners can be schools of higher education. abuses of political prisoners found in a new Soviet law Nevas and Rabbi Marc H. in the Soviet Union. which went into effect on Tanenbaum, AJCommittee In a related development, July 1, and was published in international relations di- the recently intensified the Bulletin of the Supreme rector, announced that Soviet campaign to curtail Soviet on May 30. This law copies of the study are being informal contacts between provides for fines of up to 50 made available to U.S. Con- Soviet citizens and for- rubles for citizens who pro- gressmen concerned with eigners was highlighted by vide transportation, hous- human rights. several incidents last ing or "other services" to In Washington, a small month. foreigners "privately." group of students staged a These were summarized In New York it was re- hunger strike across the in the monthly digest on ported that the Soviet street from the Soviet Em- monitoring activities issued Union is continuing to prac- bassy July 24 to express sol- by the Commission on Secu- tice discrimination against idarity with 100 people on a rity and Cooperation in Jews in graduate fields of similar strike in Riga and Europe (CSCE). education, according to a Leningrad to protest the As examples of the Soviet study just published by the three-year prison term Union's stepped-up cam- American Jewish Commit- given to Zakher Zunshain paign, the digest cited the tee's International Rela- recently for "anti-Soviet detainment of former Is- tions Department. , propaganda."