Page 12-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday .May 22, 1986
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WASHINGTON (JTA)- grate. The latter was a Natan (AnatoLy^ Schar- reference of the Jackson-, anskysaid last week he told Vanik amendineni. President-Reagah that he Scharansky arrived at the has the "historic opfxirtuni- White House accompanied ty""' to bring about the by Secretary of State emigration of all Jews NN'ho George Shult/.. Others at-want. tp: leave the Soviet . tending the meeting were . Union. Vice President Geroge
''The fate of 400,o6o Bush. National SecurH) }>oviet Jews, toagreatex- Advisor John Poindcxter tent, is in his (Reagan'sj and White House Chiet of hands,;-Scharansky said Siatt Donald Regan, at a press confei"ence fol- / Scharansky .said tiiat after lowing his more than ills arrival in Israel he 30-minute meeting with lelcplioiicd Reagan to thank Reagan at: the White 'hiin tor hjs.efforts in gain-House. . ■: ing his Toicasc'attor,nine .■iaiii.sure that he is the. \cars in Soviet prisons. He President who can reach said he was able to express siicce.s.s. who can help make , ■"my deepest, gratitude" thc<So\iet linioh open the personally.
■'lain sure that iny re-; lease would. ne\ er' have : been possible if therewere • not such a strong,;'open-'
, gates, •. .
Scha ransky :c \ pi a i tied that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, niore than his predecessors...understands the ''catastrophic . situa-tion"" of the.Soviet ccon-oni\ and that it needs, trade with the.United States. ., , He said it was thus up to the President not to be ' "deceived by cosmetic, im-proveinents"" in : human riiilits while Coneress must
cainpaign tor me, and if' President Reagan per.wnal-. ly did not take such a strong, open position on m_\ behalf." he told repiuiers/ outside the White House, ;
The White House did not release any details of the meeting in keeping with its quiet diplomacy approach
"deals much better than its predecessor'■ with the
Anatdly Scharansky had a half-hoiir meeting with President Ronald Reagan during his recent visit to the U.S. [Ganapress Photo Service]
not lift trade barriers until, on humaii rights, Jews are allowed to emi- ' Scharanskv, who .said-he
' '^^■a.s ''very- encouraged"' by the meeting, said he was not sufpri.sed that there should be difterehces. between him
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VANCOIYKR (JTA) -
One American Jewish Niudent was C'spelled from Canada and.sc\eral others .-.were, detained last week ' when niembers .of three New ^'ork-basod . Zionist organization.s protested the treatment ofRussian Jewr\ during Soviet Uni.tni. Da\ at
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;Tamir ■ Elias. _():: of . Brooklyn, wasarrested b> Canadian poli(:e and giveti;; 36.hours to leave the coun-. ir.y.after he paiticipaied in . a viKa! protest during the vvpenirig ceremonies of the Soviet Dav celebration.:
l:lia.s. a-, member of the Tagar. Student '/ionisi ,Ac.-tivistMovement. was taken .into custody alter he interrupted a sp'eech.by Vas:ily Shamshin. Soviet minister of communications.
.As Shamshin took the p<)diuin to address more than 3,000 people gathered in the Expo's Plaza of Nations, Elias and several other Zionists demdnstra-tors called on the Soviet official to "end; the Holocaust against the Russian Jews."
Loud chants of "Let Our Pc'ople Go," and
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"Stop Oppre.*;sing Soviet Jews," greeted Shamshin as he was introduced hy the master of ceremonies. Expo security officials r em o > e d the. students from the building before Shamshin was able to continue his remarks. '
Throughout the day. vnher Zi^mist.activistsvpiv 11nued 10 raIse the issue of Soviet Jewry at: the fair. Members o\' the Herut; Zionists of .Anierica and' the Betar . Zionist Youth organization distributed; material on Soviet Jewry ■ -solicited signatured on peti-liiins to the Sosiet govern-, ment; and held a press con-' ference in front of the ■Soviet pavilion. During the press conference., two ad-/ dilional activists were expelled from: the fair grounds.
"W'e sit in different, viously a Prisoner of Zion, chairs."' he saidaf the press ^and now, thank Gixi.an o.r-conference. "He is the Pre-, dinarycitizenqf the State of sident of tJieUnited Slates Isreal.'". .of .America and I am pre;- But; he stressed to reporters, "quiet diploinacy.. from niy point of view, can help only, if it is.suppi.ined by Strong public pressure, so that for the Soviet Union there uill be no illusion that.. . the; question ot". hunian rights. • the question of .So\iet Jeus. the question of emigration are \er\ close— 1> connected to their e.convimic and political interests."
vScharansky .said at his press conference that the Reagah administration
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we need to do much rnpre. not proof that we have done enough," House Speaker T homas 0' Nei 11 Tleclared.
O'Neill said that in a private meeting with Scharansky before the ceremony, the leaders of. the House and Senate "pleaded to Coimtinue pur efforts to win the freedom of 400,000 Soviet Jews who desire to leave the Soviet Union."
: As Scharansky entered the. fotuilda. under the Jews ; in, prison ■ Capitcil-dome. hewas.gi\en a standing ovation by the hundreds of senators, representatives, leaders .of national ■ and local Jewish organi/aliiins and. others who attended the cere-. n-ioa_\. . During his stay in Wash-. . 'ington. ■ 'lie recei\ ed- Con-' -gressi'iVnal gold'niedals for. his wife. .Avitalv andftir . him.self. Both tlie 'Senate and House approved reso-. lutions awarding the medal, introduced.by Sen'. Frank Lautenbergand Rep. Ben-, jamin Gilman. .
Avital Scharansky, who , is pregnant, remained in Israel for her husband's first vi.^it to the United States.; But Rep; Sidney Yates (D.Ill;) noted at the cere-; mony that she was kfioun to every niemberof Congress, tor her constant ap-peals.on behalf of her hus-.. band and other Soviet Jew s'.
Elias. who was held for se\erai hours at a local pol i ce sta i 10n. co mp 1 ai ned :aftcr his release that;he had been forcibh strip-searched in front of other' prisoners • during his ..detention, ..:
Al Jaime.-1. of Queens. NY. told a pres.s coherence in Vancouver that the group had come to Expo ■ after being encouraged to aciiyeiy■ ..challenge .the Soviets during a meeting, with .-Xnatolv Scharanskv in New York:' . / :
Jaime .said that the trip to. the Expo was designed to let the Russians kiiow "that Jews will'not be Silent not ever and not anywhere — as long as.they continue to persecute, oppress and deny the right to eniigrate to the Russian Jewish' communitv."
Soviet Union.
He said he was "deeply impressed" by Reagan-s "uhderslanding oi" the problem of Soviet Jews and his comitnient to the .struggle of the right of our people to. leave the Soviet Union and, tojoin my people in Israel" as well as for human right.s in general.
He sai.d'he told the President- the "strong impres-'^ sion " his speeches inade on SOA'iet camps.
Schararisky was careful not to reveal; directly any comment.s made by the President, When a reporter pressed him, he quipped that the KGB failed .in trying to break him down and so "you have no chance with'me."
.After leaving the White House. Scharansk)' went to the District- Building.. Washington's City; Hall; where Mayor Marion Barn,' presented him the key to the District of Columbia.
. Meanwhile, he expressed; h i s " deep g rat i t ude'" to . die U.S. Congress for help-inghim win his freedom. Iri. return, congressional lead- . ers pledged to continue the struggle, until all. Soviet Jews uho.want to eniigrate are allowed to leave,.
'-I am released, but 400,000 Soviet Jews are still kept as prisoners of theSoviet Union," Scharansky said as he was welcomed to \Va.shington in a ceremony in the rotunda of the Capitol. "The success in winning the recent release of .Anatii--1> Scharansky is proof that
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TEL AVIV (JTA) -
: The defence ministry said last week that it is in noway connecicd.with Zc'ev Reiss.. an Israeli national ;.arre.sted\ at JFK Airport in New York.and. charged by U.S. authoritie.s with an attempt to smuggle Americiin weapcins to a Persian Gulf country.
Reiss;. an Israel Defence Force" reservist with the rank of lieutenant-colonel arid a former basketball. player for/the .Hapoe.l Sport-s Club International is not known to have requested a.ssistancc. from any Israeli official;. The foreign . ministry in Jerusalem said it has no intention of intervening in the ca.se. '.:
Reiss was the seventh Israeli the U.S.'authorities arrested in the past month, or issued warrants for their
arrest; in connection with an alleged scheme to sell more than $2 billion in A me r ica n weapon s to I ra n in violation of the U.S. arms embargo against thai country. But sources here said there appeared to be no .connection between Reiss and the six -other Israeli-S Charced by the U.S. last .April 22.-
The latter include a retired IDF general. Abraham Baram. and William Northrop, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship. They are presently in Bermuda fighting extradition to the
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The defence ;ministry".s statemenf .said Reiss has no present or past connections with the ministry, is riot known to the ministry staff and has no authorization to trade in arms.
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