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Orlov and Shcharansky, who were released from Soviet labor camps in apparent ges- tures to the Reagan adminis- tration, testified before a com- mission of inquiry, sponsored by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews on Capitol Hill, to demonstrate the Soviet Union's violation of the Hel- sinki Accords. They were questioned by Sens. William Armstrong (R.-Colo.) and Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa), former Sen. Richard Stone (D-Fla.) and Stuart Eizenstat, the UCSJ's legal counsel and a former special assistant to President Carter. Orlov and Both Shcharansky said the West should not be taken in by ges- tures such as their release. Shcharansky said there is a "desire in the West to be de- ceived" by such gestures be- cause of the fear of nuclear war. Both former Soviet prisoners said that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, while seeming to placate the West with gestures such as the re- lease of some Soviet prisoners and allowing emigration for the reunification of families, balances this with harsher re- strictions at home. Shcharansky noted that the new emigration law which went into effect Jan. 1 starts by claiming a free emigration pol- icy. But then, he noted, it makes emigration procedures more restrictive allowing emigration only for those who would be reunited with close relatives, defined as parents, children or brothers and sis- ters. He said that as far as Soviet Jews are concerned, even if all 30,000 who fit this category were allowed to leave, it would be only ten percent of the 380,000 who have earlier re- ceived invitations from Israel and have been denied visas. Shcharansky urged Con- gress not to continue with vague calls for increased emig- ration, which totalled only 914 in 1986, but to set fixed guidelines. He said if 20,000 Jews were allowed to emigrate one concession could be made, if 50,000 left another and if all who asked to leave were allowed to go the Jackson- Vanik Amendment could be lifted. Eizenstat said that in 1979 Natan Shcharansky after 50,000 Jews were allowed to emigrate he brought Carter a proposal from then Rep. Charles Vanik (D.-Ohio), the co-sponsor of the amendment that links U.S. trade benefits for the Soviet Union to in- creased emigration, to tempo- rarily lift the restrictions. But nothing was done because Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and most Jewish groups were op- posed, he said. He noted that the next year emigration dropped to 21,471 and has fallen yearly ever since. He wondered whether Shcharansky proposed a carrot-and-stick approach. the Carter administration had made a mistake, but Shcharansky said he -believes the large emigration in 1979, at a time when he was in prison, was an effort by the Soviet Union to clean house. He said at the same time Mos- cow was restricting new invi- tations for those who wanted to leave. Shcharansky rejected the charge that the large number of Soviet emigrants who go to the United States, instead of Israel, is the reason for the drop in emigration. He said that while as an Israeli citizen he would like to see more Jews — from the U.S. as well as the USSR — go to Israel, the large number of dropouts is only an excuse used by Moscow and has nothing to do with the clamp down on emigration. Meanwhile, Lynn Singer, a former president of the UCSJ, said that she learned that Lev Blitshtein, a 56-year-old Mos- cow refusenik who had been denied an emigration visa since 1975, was told he could leave. Blitshtein was forced to di- vorce his wife, Buma, so that she and their children, Boris and Galina, could emigrate. They have lived in the United States since 1976. Singer noted that Blitshtein has over the years been espe- cially helpful to the families of Jewish Prisoners of Con- science.