WI NS 35 11 1 P 0. - ' . ggtA 1, inner space of 'loom/101d HIM -4-- " 0.4 1( 40 0 TOYOTA Is Pleased To Announce gA •-- 14 1 Tarp 1111 The Appointment of h........ ■ ....... ■■ .......: ■■■■■ Shultz Denies U.Sr USSR 'Deal' For Jews Washington (JTA) — Sec- retary of State George Shultz said last Sunday that the ex- it visas given two Soviet Jewish families did not come about because of any "precise agreement" during the meet- ing between President Rea- gan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Ice- land, October 11 to 12. "We didn't have any precise agreement, although many names of individuals were talked about," Shultz said on the NBC-TV "Meet the Press" program. He added that Reagan and Gorbachev also discussed the "hundreds of thousands who would love to emigrate. So all of that was discussed, but there was no precise agreement on either of those cases." The two cases he referred to were those of David Goldfarb, a long-time refusenik, who was flown to the U.S. by Ar- mand Hammer with his wife, Cecilia, and Viktor and Inessa Ferov who were told they could leave for Israel. Inessa Ferova has a brother in Israel, Michael Shirman, who suffers from acute leukemia. She will donate blood marrow for a transplant that may save his life. In an address to the Na- tional Press Club, Shultz said there was "sustained discus- sion" on human rights issues in Iceland. He said the Na- tional Conference for Soviet Jewry and other human rights groups "helped us to make a powerful presenta- tion?' Asked on "Meet the Press" about criticism that - the U.S. was making concessions to the Soviets in return for the release of individuals, Shultz replied, "trading in human be- ings is inherently a repulsive matter." He added, however, that the Soviet "system is as it is. When we can get people out we're glad to have them out." He stressed that it was not only important to gain the emigration of people whose names are well known, but also the "great mass of peo- ple" who want to leave. The number of refuseniks in the Soviet Union is estimated at 400,000. = bers of Jews allowed to leave each year. The package was largely prepared by the Na- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry. Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference, expressed disappointment that not much progress was achieved on the Soviet Jewish question at Reykjavik. At the same time, however, he welcomed President Reagan's decision to raise the issue forthright- ly during two meetings with Gorbachev. Shultz raised it separately at the foreign minister's level. But U.S. officials said the Soviet side had listened politely. For Gorbachev, this was really a side issue. There could be "progress" in human rights, he said, only if the big- ger picture of U.S:Soviet rela- tions were improved. That, again, meant an end to the "Star Wars" program. The Soviets privately pressed this same message to reporters and even to Soviet Jewry ac- tivists on the scene. On the Middle East, U.S. officials said that not much progress was achieved in Iceland either. They said that the Soviets simply insisted on the convening of an interna- tional peace conference — a longstanding Soviet position. The U.S. and Israel have con- ditioned any such meeting to the Soviet Union's first re- establishing diplomatic rela- tions with Israel and easing the plight of Soviet Jewry. ■-■ ■■, . .... , Jewish emigration, U.S. of- ficials said. They said that such a pro- posal was made at the Iceland summit by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rozeanne Ridgeway during a working group meeting. The Americans noted that the Soviets were prepared to acknowledge the "human rights" dimension — as op- posed to the strictly "human- itarian" problems — in a for- mal joint statement to be issued at the end of the sum- mit. But no communique was released because of the failure to complete an arms control agreement, U.S. officials said. In the past, the Soviets have denied that "human rights" problems even existed in the Soviet Union. Instead, they have referred only to "humanitarian" problems, such as reunification of families. The Israeli Ambassador in Washington, Meir Rosenne, went to the State Depart- ment to receive from Ridge- way and other U.S. officials a firsthand briefing on the outcome of the Reykjavik summit. Reporters were told that the U.S., at Reykjavik, had submitted a detailed set of documents on the plight of Soviet Jewry to the Soviets. 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