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that she will always remember.

RUTH UTTMANN STAFF WRITER

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hey aren't sure where it
will lead. New Ameri-
cans, some with rela-
tives and friends in
Moscow, say recent turmoil
in the Russian capital is
cause for concern.
"I think it's really scary,"
said Yuna Pashkevich, who
moved to Westland from St.
Petersburg two years ago.
"Peace will take time. My real
fear is nuclear war."
Ms. Pashkevich believes
that ongoing rifts between
Communist hardliners and
democratic reformers might
split the Russian army and
lead to civil war. If tensions
climb high enough, she says,
opposing factions might use
the country's nuclear capa-
bilities.
Somewhat easing Ms.
Pashkevich's fears is the be-
lief that Vice President
Alexander Rutskoi — whose
supporters rebelled when
President Boris Yeltsin dis-
solved parliament last week
— does not wield much influ-
ence in the army.
Will democratic reforms
sputter? Will Russia revert
back to a Communist nation?
Marina Sheffer, who immi-
grated from Moscow a year
ago, is asking herself these
questions. She hopes anoth-
er Cold War is not looming on
the horizon.
"We are very concerned,"
she said. "I think that peace
in the whole world depends
on peace in Russia."
Ms. Sheffer is relieved that
Vice President Rutskoi and
Parliament Speaker Ruslan
Khasbulatov, who led the re-
bellion, have been arrested.

She says "fascists and Com-
munists are one and the
same...
"If Rutskoi were ever to be-
come president, he would kill
Yeltsin and return to Com-
munism," she said.
Alexander Goldberg, a new
American who lives in South-
field, worries that President
Yeltsin isn't the solution to
the country's problems either.
"He wants to achieve
democracy using anti-demo-
cratic methods," said Mr.
Goldberg, referring to the
president's edict to dissolve
parliament, as well as to Mr.
Yeltsin's move to dissolve the
Soviet Union two years ago.
"I don't like Yeltsin," he
said. "He came to power us-
ing this idea that he is a de-
mocrat, but he uses it just to
be in power."

"My real fear is
nuclear war."

— Yuna Pashkevich

Mr. Goldberg also worries
that President Yeltsin only
pretends to like Jews. But, he
says, the alternatives are
worse.
The three new Americans
agree that in any time of po-
litical and economic flux, the
life of Jews living in the for-
mer Soviet Union is jeopar-
dized.
"It's very dangerous, I
think," Mr. Goldberg said. "In
almost all bad situations (in
Russia), it was always the
Jewish people who were
blamed." ❑

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embers of Congrega-
tion B'nai David
have pledged
$443,000 since Rosh
Hashanah toward construc-
tion of a new synagogue
building.
That total is more than
half of the additional
$700,000 needed for B'nai
David to commit to construc-
tion on Maple Road in West
Bloomfield.

Synagogue president Lar-
ry Traison this week sent a
letter to members saying the
congregation needs an addi-
tional $348,000 in pledges,
plus $200,000 in operating
funds to cover the transition
when the synagogue leaves
its Southfield building and for
operating the new building
when it is completed.

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