YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! Emergency Continued from Page 1 1988. It now becomes the job of our community and the Jewish communities thoughout North America to step forward and to provide monies since the Soviet leaders have 'let our people go! According to Michael Schneider, JDC executive vice president in New York, the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget law forced the U.S. government last year to cut reimbursement for -JDC's transmigrant care to only 30 days of the 75-day process. At the same time, Soviet Jewish emigration jumped to 20,000 last year and is expected to hit 38,000 in 1989. "We are spreading resources thinner so as not to turn anyone away," Schneider said of JDC's cost-cutting, which recently included cut- ting by 30 percent the cash allowances given in Ladispoli for food and housing. Schneider said the emigres in Ladispoli are being told to contact relatives in the United States to send money. "They must share in the burden; they must help as much as possible," he said. "We will not receive addi- tional help from the U.S. government until July. We ex- pect to need about $10 million for those three months, and we don't have it," said Schneider. ❑ Reassess Trade Bill WJC Leader Urges Subscribe Today To The Jewish News And Receive A T-Shirt With Our Compliments! From the West Bank to West Bloomfield — and all points in between — The Jewish News covers your world. And with our T-shirt, we cover new subscribers, too. The T-shirt is durable, comfortable, easy to care for and attractive. And it comes in an array of adults' and children's sizes. But most important, your new subscription will mean 52 information- packed weeks of The Jewish News, plus our special supplements, delivered every Friday to your mailbox. A $42.90 value for only $26! A great newspaper and a complimentary T-shirt await you for our low subscription rates. Just fill out the coupon below and return it to us. We'll fit you to a T! Jewish News T-Shirt Offer Please clip coupon and mail to: JEWISH NEWS T-SHIRT 20300 Civic CenterDr. Southfield, Mich. 48076-4138 NAME Yes! Start me on a subscription to The Jewish News for the period and amount circled below Please send me the T-shirt. This offer is for new subscriptions only. Cur- rent subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allow four weeks delivery. ADDRESS CITY • (Circle One) (Circle One) ZIP 1 year: $26 2 years: $46 Out of State: $33 Enclosed $ ADULT EX. W. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL L 12 STATE J FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989 New York (JTA) — It is time for the United States to re- evaluate its restrictions on trade with the Soviet Union, in light of profound changes instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the presi- dent of the World Jewish Con- gress said last week. Speaking in Philadelphia to the World Affairs Council, Edgar Bionfman said the U.S. government should consider waiving such restrictions under the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which links the granting of most-favored- nation trade status to freedom of emigration for Jews and other minorities. His remarks are the latest indication that the American Jewish community will soon drop its opposition to waiving the 1975 amendment's restrictions. Sources in the community believe such a policy change will occur by June. Bronfman said his recom- mendations were based on analyses undertaken with members of the East-West Forum, an international organization of policy-makers and scholars he convened three years ago to arrive at the best management possi- ble of East-West relations. "The Soviets have gone far toward answering the pro- blems that led the United States to put the Jackson- Vanik Amendment into law," said Bronfman. "This sea change calls for an energetic and -imaginative Western response. "Should the Soviets con- tinue on their current path," Bronfman reasoned, "the United States- administration should review Jackson-Vanik restrictions, which prohibit most-favored-nation status on tariff issues to any non- market economy country that restricts emigration!' Sources now say they believe the National Jewish Community Relations Ad- visory Council, as well as the WJC, will probably ask for the waiver in or around June. NJCRAC is believed to have decided on an 18-month waiver in a closed-door vote at its annual plenum last month in Washington. Dr. Lawrence Rubin, associate executive vice chair- man of NJCRAC, confirmed that the umbrella group had held a full discussion on Jackson-Vanik during the February conclave. "A consensus did emerge which will be articulated within the process of the Na- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry at its executive com- mittee meeting in June," The National Conference on Tuesday released a statement affirming that the organiza- tion is continuing to reassess its policy on the Jackson- Vanik Amendment. Paraguay Will Hunt Nazis Asuncion, Paraguay — General Andrew Rodriguez, Paraguay's new president, has pledged that he will im- mediately begin efforts to locate, arrest and expel Nazi war criminals living in the country. He made the assurance in a meeting with Rabbi Morton M. Rosenthal, an Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith official, asserting that Paraguay will no longer be a haven for Nazi war criminals.