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New Route May Open
For Vulnerable Soviets

New York (JTA) —
Though a new transit route
for Soviet Jews immigrating
to Israel appears to be open-
ing up in Finland, Jewish
organizations remain con-
cerned that the overall flow
of immigration is vulnerable
to terrorist threats.
By the end of last week,
the Finnish Consulate in
Leningrad already had
issued 100 transit visas to
Soviet Jews who had secured
their Soviet emigration pa-
pers and Israeli entry visas,
according to the World Jew-
ish Congress. A transit visa
enables passage through an
intermediary country not
serving as a final destina-
tion.
Elan. Steinberg, executive
director of the WJC, said his
group learned of the issuing
of the visas from sources in
the Finnish Jewish com-
munity and from the Va'ad,
the umbrella body of Jewish
organizations in the Soviet
Union.
The train ride to Helsinki
from Leningrad — the city
with the second-largest
number of Jews in the Soviet
Union — is an eight-hour
journey.
Tempering the good news
from Finland for Soviet
Jews, however, is the
likelihood that Maley, the
Hungarian national airline,
will soon cease carrying
Soviet Jewish emigres once
again.
There was an outcry last
month when Maley suddenly
canceled agreements for spe-
cial charter flights of Soviet
Jews from Moscow to
Budapest and also did not
allow the emigres aboard
regularly scheduled Maley
flights. Maley made the
move after receiving threats
from an Arab terrorist group
that warned it would target
airlines and facilities that
facilitate the immigration of
Soviet Jews to Israel.
After diplomatic protests
from Israel and the United
States, the Hungarian
government dismissed
Malev's director. Shortly
thereafter, the airline again
permitted Soviet Jews
holding tickets on regularly
scheduled flights to make
the trip. It also agreed to in-
crease the number of regular
flights from Moscow, though
it did not agree to start
charter flights.
And now, while the
Hungarians are honoring
the tickets that were sold in
the past, they have not sold

new tickets to Soviet Jewish
emigres, according to
Malcolm Hoenlein, exec-
utive director of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations.
Hoenlein said it could be
just a matter of weeks before
those holding tickets have
made the journey;
thereafter, immigration via
Maley would likely cease.
Presumably, Budapest
could still serve as a transit
point for Jewish emigres
who arrive in Budapest by
train or via the Soviet car-
rier Aeroflot, and then take
specially chartered El Al
flights from the Hungarian
capital to Israel.
But both Hoenlein and
Martin Wenick, executive
director of the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, said
it would be "disappointing"
if Maley stopped transpor-
ting Soviet Jewish immi-
grants on scheduled flights.
To try to sway the
Hungarian airline's deci-
sion, "the NCSJ has been in
touch with the Hungarian
ambassador and the Maley
director in recent days."

Tass Report
Stirs Mystery

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Mystery
surrounds Tass reports that
a Soviet airliner carrying
Jews to Israel was the target
of a Palestinian terrorist at-
tack in Cyprus.
Israeli and Cypriot au-
thorities said they had no in-
formation about the alleged
incident.
Soviet airliners, moreover,
do not fly to Israel.
The official Soviet news
agency reported April 13
that an Aeroflot jet carrying
Jewish immigrants to Israel
was attacked by Palestin-
ians.
An amended version
issued later by Tass referred
to an attempted attack on an
aircraft carrying Soviet
Jews on a scheduled flight to
Israel via Cyprus.
Israeli government and
Jewish Agency officials
noted that Cyprus is not a
way station for Soviet Jews
immigrating to Israel. But
according to recent reports,
Soviet Jews and non-Jews
traveling to Israel as
tourists buy return flights
between Moscow and Cyprus
and travel the short leg bet-
ween Cyprus and Israel by
ferry or local air services.

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