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conditions
improved, but he said about
25 percent.
While
noting
that
apartheid in South Africa is
reprehensible, he bemoaned
the fact that many Jews,
including rabbis, were more
active in protesting apartheid
than Soviet human rights
violations. "It seems that
rabbis are happy to be
arrested in front of the South
African embassy, but not the
Soviet embassy," he said. "We
are Jews and let us protest for
Soviet Jews first,"
particularly because "the
Soviet system is at least as
disgusting as apartheid."
He hastened to add, though,
that each protest movement
should have universal appeal,
and said he advocates
different ethnic groups
working together to combat
bigotry.
Shcharansky said he
opposes Sister City dialogues
such as recent meetings be-
tween American and Soviet
delegates, because the Soviets
are told what to say by their
government. "Such dialogue
is senseless," he said, and
only legitimizes the Soviet
effort.
Later Monday evening,
Shcharansky met with about
60 Soviet Jewish activists at
the Baltimore home of Jewish
News publisher Charles and
Ronnie Buerger. Rather than
giving another speech, Shcha-
ransky offered a few brief
remarks, hammering home
his main points again, and
then opebing up the
discussion to a give-and-take
regarding strategy to
energize and mobilize Amer-
ican Jewry.
He responded to each
question or comment in kind.
He offered a thorough
response to a Soviet expert's
query about global policies.
And he literally applauded an
activist's suggestion that a
sheet of paper be passed
around the room and every-
one present sign up and
pledge to be responsible to
bring at least a busload of
people to the planned Wash-
ington rally.
Shcharansky revealed his
sophisticated approach to
issues, pointing out that he
never uses words like "link-
age" or "pre-conditions" in
his talks, and noting that he
does not call Glasnost a farce.
"Gorbachev is trying to make
reforms, but he is playing
with the issues that concern
us."
He advised against focusing
on improving Jewish life
within the USSR, suggesting
that the Soviets can too easily
"make gestures, and deceive
us" which is more difficult for
Shcharansky when he was freed
from the USSR in 1986.
,
them to do regarding
emigration figures.
There was general
agreement in the room that a
massive rally in Washington
on _the eve of Gorbachev's
arrival would be most
effective, and several likened
it to the 1963 civil rights
march on Washington.
Shcharansky agreed with
comments that such a rally
must involve college students
and young adults as well as
older Jews; must be focused
on a specific sense of crisis;
and should include
entertainers to give the event
a sense of excitement. (At one
point, there was even
discussion of which singers to
include, from Barbra
Streisand to Neil Diamond.
Shcharansky mentioned Paul
Simon.)
Ever the savvy organizer,
he chose to continue the
discussion — when it was
about to conclude — until the
pad of paper with busload
pledges had circulated the
room.
Shcharansky told attentive
Baltimore day school stu-
dents on Tuesday that when
he was growing up in the
Ukraine, he did not know
there was such a thing as a
Jewish school, since there are
none in the USSR. He said he
was not even familiar with
the names of holidays like
Pesach and Rosh Hashanah.
All of that changed, for him
and thousands of others, as a
result of Israel's victory in the
Six Day War in 1967, he
explained. He said Jews felt a
new sense of pride and his-
tory. "It reminded us that we
are Jews and that we must
remain loyal' to our past and
continue our history. That's
how we became free men," he
said.
Shcharansky told the
youngsters of his mission
here and urged them to join
in the proposed rally in
Washington. He said such
participation "will make your