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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
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FEBRUARY 7, 1986
'Sheharahsky
Shcharansky will be released to a
claim by a Washington attorney that
the entire incident has been orches-
trated by the Russian spy agency,
the KGB.
According to this lawyer, the
KGB had planted the rumors about
Shcharansky to kill whatever
chances the dissident may have had
BY ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
Anatoly Shcharansky
r
Reports of Soviet Jewish pris-
oner Anatoly Shcharansky's immi-
nent release from the USSR has
triggered a flurry of cautious op-
) timism in the West.
Reaction has ranged from an Is-
rael Radio report that White House
sources had secretly informed Israeli
Prime Minister Shimon Peres that
for early freedom. He said that a
State Department officer who has
been working for six, months for
Shcharansky's release was dis-
traught at news reports that the
Russian would be released. Negotia-
tions for an. East-West prisoner swap
that would include Shcharansky had
been making-tentative progress, said
the attorney.. But premature news
reports would probably derail the ac-
tual exchange.
The 38-year-old Shcharansky
was sentenced in 1978 to 13 years in
prison and labor camp on charges of
having collected intelligence for the
United States. President Carter de-
nied the charges. The general view
in the West is that Shcharansky, a
mathematician and Computer scien-
tist, was jailed because of his activi-
ties on behalf of Jewish emigration.
The first dispatches about
Shcharansky's release appeared on
Monday in the' West German news-
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#10..!:Floptieve.
Empire Kosher's main
plant may have burned,
but Detroiters have plenty
of poultry to choose from.
BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
, A fire that destroyed the main
processing plant of the world's
largest supplier of kosher , poultry is
not expected to have a major effect
jan local supplies of kosher chicken
and turkey.
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The Jan. 26 fire in Miffiintown,
Pa. destroyed the major processing
plant and administrative offices of
Empire Kosher Foods, which is the
major source of kosher poultry in the
Detroit area. Empire estimates the
damage at $15-$17 million. It has
added shifts and doubled production
at its plant in , Mount Union, 45
miles away.
Scott Mendelsohn, sales man-
ager at City Foods in 'Detroit, told
The Jewish News that the fire "has
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Norman and Diane Ash help son Justin become a Super Sunday volunteer.
Super Sunday
Gains $818,569
The winners: 5,200 Detroiters
who pledged $818,569 to the 1986
Allied Jewish Campaign on Super
Sunday.
The losers; It would be tough to
find any on a day that linked 300
volunteers to thousands of con-
tributors on behalf of their fellow
Jews around the world.
It was a record total on this fifth
annual Super Sunday: $268,000
more . than last, year's ,achieveraant.
When. volunteer 'tabulator Bernard
Kent ran 'up the final tally at 5 p.m.,
workers on the final shift applauded
for themselves, for the con-
tributors and for Detroit. But some
workers went right, on calling in'
hopes of getting that last pledge for
the day.
Kent was among the 85 Yonng
Adult Division members: on duty
throughout the day. They were not
the youngest workers, however. Seth
Jackier and his sister Ariana joined
their parents Larry and Shelly on :
the phones. Seth set a goal of $1,000
in pledges, and beat the goal by $81.
Theirs 'wasn't the only family af-
fair. For Daniel Alter, 9, and his sis-
ter Jessica, 6, it was their third an-
nual Super Sunday. For Justin Ash,
15 months, it was his first.
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