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Price determined at lease incep- tion. 15,000 miles ..r . limit on leases. 110/mile excess (100 on To ota) Leasee res.. for excessive wear & tear. Sale Ends Jul 15, 1994 at 6 ..m. Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 New York (JTA) — Despite and even because of the passing of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Lubavitch emissaries are continuing to press the Russian government to return a Lubavitch library of more than 12,000 books and 300 manuscripts being held at the Russian State Library in Moscow. The matter of the book was raised during a meeting in Wash- ington that some Jewish leaders held with visiting Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. Retrieval of the collection, which was appropriated by the Soviets in 1921 and placed at the former Lenin Library, was a pri- ority of the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died June 12. Although Russian President Boris Yeltsin and a Russian court ordered the books returned to Lubavitch as far back as 1991, only eight books have been given back to the Chasidic movement. Seven of the books accompa- nied President Clinton on his re- turn from Europe in February and another one was returned personally by Vice President Al Gore, who was given the book during a visit to Moscow in De- cember. Mr. Gore gave the book to Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Eliyohu Cunin, who delivered it to the rebbe be- fore he suffered a stroke. Rabbi Cunin, who lives in Los Angeles, has been shuttling back and forth between Moscow and Washington for several years in pursuit of the Lubavitch library, engaging the help of U.S. gov- ernment officials in doing so. Rabbi Cunin, who has met per- sonally with Mr. Yeltsin about the issue, said he had discussed it with Thomas Pickering, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, just two days before the Lubavitcher rebbe died. This week, the Lubavitch emissary and two of his sons, who are also pursuing the return of the books, pressed their cam- paign on Mr. Chernomyrdin through top U.S. officials. Four prominent senators, in- cluding the Senate majority and minority leaders, wrote a letter to Mr. Chernomyrdin asking that he bring the books with him when he visited Washington. The letter from George Mitchell, D-Maine , the Senate majority leader; Bob Dole, R- Kan., the minority leader, Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.; and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said the mat- ter of the books is "of great im- portance to us." "We have raised this issue on more than one occasion with President Yeltsin and former Ambassador (Vladimir) Lukin, both of whom assured us that the rest of the books would be re- turned in the near future," the senators wrote. However, the letter was sent after the prime minister had left for the United States. At the meeting with Mr. Cher- Arthur Schneier: A personal appeal. nomyr din, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an ec- umenical organization that pur- sues religious rights issues around the world, raised the is- sue with the Russian prime min- ister. Rabbi Schneier described Mr. Chernomyrdin as "sympathetic" to the cause. Rabbi Cunin said he believes there is anti-Semitism in the Rus- sians' failure to return the books. He cited the Russians' recent return of books and artifacts to the Germans and to the Russian Orthodox Church. However, a spokeswoman at the German Information Center here said Germany, too, had been promised the return of 500,000 artifacts and 5,185 books taken by the Red Army . during World War II but had not, in fact, re- ceived them. 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