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Jewish World Mourns
Andrei Sakharov, 68
New York (JTA) — Andrei
Sakharov, a rare voice for
human rights in the Soviet
Union, will be sorely missed
by the world Jewish com-
munity, which noted his
passing with sadness.
Sakharov, the Nobel Peace
Prize laureate and nuclear
physicist who died of a heart
attack on Dec. 14, was once
described by Soviet Jewish
activist Natan Sharansky as
"the conscience of the Soviet
Union."
A founder of the Helsinki
human rights monitoring
group, Sakharov, 68, was
remembered fondly this
week by Soviet Jewry ad-
vocacy groups, such as the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, which referred
to him in a statement as a
"beacon of freedom" and "a
steadfast champion of
human rights."
In 1968, he attacked the
Soviet leadership for
"backsliding into anti-
Semitism" and characteriz-
ed the bureaucracy in the
"highest elite of the land" of
acting "in the spirit of
Stalinist anti-Semitism."
According to the National
Jewish Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council, or
NJCRAC, Sakharov stood
outside Soviet courtrooms in
1970 and 1971 to protest the
sentencing of aliyah ac-
tivists who attempted to
steal an airplane and flee
the country.
"They have only one aim,"
said Sakharov. "To go to
Israel, which is their right."
In 1975, Sakharov, con-
sidered the father of the
Soviet hydrogen bomb,
published a statement on
"Freedom of Choosing One's
Country of Residence." In it,
he praised the U.S. Con-
gress' adoption of the
Jackson-Vanik Amendment
to the U.S. Trade Act, which
first linked the Soviets'
trade status to the level of
free emigration.
Sakharov wrote that the
amendment "continued the
best democratic and humane
traditions of the American
people" and rejected "the
assertions of the critics" that
it was "interference into the
domestic affairs of the
USSR."
In the same document,
Sakharov referred to aliyah,
or Jewish immigration to
Israel, as "a phenomenon of
general human importance
and important in principle
in the thousands-year-old
tragic history of the Jewish
people."
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In 1975, he warned the
United Nations against
sanctioning anti-Semitism,
while the world body was
considering its infamous
resolution equating Zionism
with racism. "If this resolu-
tion is adopted," he said, "it
can only contribute to anti-
Semitic tendencies in other
countries by giving them the
appearance of international
legality."
"It's not often that a
galant champion of human
rights challenges the
government of a superpower
and becomes a giant on the
world stage," Seymour
Reich, president of
B'rith International and
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions, said in a statement.
"Andrei Sakharov was such
a paragon among men."
Sakharov's lifelong com-
mitment to human rights
was recognized in 1984 by
the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, which presented
him, in absentia, with its
Humanitarian Award.
Israel's Inflation
At 20 Percent
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A 1.3
percent increase last month
in Israel's cost-of-living in-
dex brought the consumer
price index to 148.3 on a
1987 baseline of 100, the
Central Bureau of Statistics
reported.
Inflation is running at an
annual rate of 20 percent.
The rate for the full year will
not be known until the
December price index is
published on Jan. 15.
Last month, the National
Insurance Institute reported
that nearly half a million
Israeli families live below
the poverty line.
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