Soviets continue harsh sentences
THE SOVIET UNION continues its harsh sentences. Yuri Pock (1.) a 23 year-old Odessa economics student, has been sentenced to 3>/2 years imprisonment following his request to leave for Israel. Engineer Yuli Tartakovsky (r.) a Kiev activist of the same age, faces possible trial after the Brezhnev visit to the United States.
NEW YORK - A petition to Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet Communist Party leader, urging immediate release of Evgeny Levich, 25-year-old astrophysicist from a military compound in Eastern Siberia, where he was taken forcibly last week, was signed by over 1,000 medical specialists from 50 states attending the annual conference of the American Gastroenterological association at the Americana hotel.
The petition, introduced by Dr. Morton I. Grossman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology at U.C.L.A. in California, stated that unless Levich is allowed to conr tinue his medical treatment, "we firmly believe that his health will be severely deteriorated and place him in grave jeopardy of survival."
, The petition calling upon Brezhnev to intercede personally for the return pf Levich to Moscow and to essential medical treat-
ment he had been receiving at the Moscow Cancer Dispensary stated, in part: .
"The American medical community is shocked that as a reprisal measure against Evgeny and his father, Benjamin Levich, world renowned theoretical physicist and electrochemist, for their desire to emigrate to Israel, the Soviet authorities are subjecting this young person, with serious ulcerative colitus and possible cancerous tumor developments, to the harsh environment and excessive pressures of army duty in the Soviet Far East."
The American Gastroenterological Association is expected also to pass a resolution on the emergency nature of the Levich situation that will urge all members of the medical, academic and scientific communities to~ express their concern to Dr. Boris Petrovsky, Soviet Minister of Health; Dr. Kirillin, Soviet Minister of Science; Dr. Marshall
Grechko, Soviet Minister of Defense; and to Brezhnev asking for Levich's freedom on humanitarian grounds.
On May 16, Evgeny, the 24 year-old astrophysicist son of famed Soviet Jewish activist Prof. Benjamin Levich, was abducted by two military and one civilian government personnel, and inducted into the Soviet army. As retaliation for his and his father's Jewish activities, Soviet authorities had been trying to force him into the army. Evgeny, ill with several internal disorders, claimed medical exemption. When told by the military to prove this, Evgeny made arrangements for medical tests and was on his way to Moscow hospital #1 with his wife when he was kidnapped.
According to Mrs. Tanya Levich, Evgeny's mother, in a phone conversation with the Stu-
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MACKOFF APPOINTED TO B.C. SUPREME COURT
Vancouver county court Judge Albert A. Mackoff, Q.C., has been appointed to the B.C. Supreme; Court to- fiJl a vacancy left by the death last month of Mr. Justice George Gregory.
The appointment was announced
ALBERT A. MACKOFF
in Ottawa by .Justice Minister Otto Lang.
Mr. Mackoff was born Dec. 12, 1919/and came to Vancouver in 1926 with his parents, the late Morris and Anna Mackoff, and his brother , Isadore. His father .began here in scrap metal and then went into the used furniture business on Granville
street. The family resided at 505 Glen drive.
Albert Mackoff was educated at Seymour school, w: Tenipleton junior high and at Britania secondary school. He served in the Canadian ' Army with the Canadian Scottish regiment, also serving at a local base here.
Following his discharge in 1945, he entered the faculty of law at • U.B.C. from which he graduated in 1951 and was admitted to the Bar here the same year. Mr. Mackoff practiced law for five years, then became assistant City Prosecutor between 1957 and 1959.
Recommencing private practice at that time, he went into partnership with Arthur Fouks (now Q.C.) Named a Queen's Counsel in 1967, Mr. Mackoff has become widely known for defence work in many famous cases in British Columbia, including some involving murder and blackmail.
He was appointed a judge of ,the county court in April, 1970.
A member of both the Vancouver Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association, Mr. Mackoff is also a member and supporter of Children's hospital here. The family is affiliated with Congregation Beth Israel. A member of AZA as a youth Mr. Mackoff was winner of an international AZA oratory contest, the only Canadian to attain this distinction.
Iraq slays Jewish family In revenge'
JERUSALEM — The five mem-biers of the Kashkosh^ family ^w^ brutally gunned down by Iraq security forces in revenge for the death of three terrorist leaders killed during the Israeli commando raid on Beirut April 10, it was disclosed here recently.
The shooting occurred April 12 during a mourning procession in Baghdad for the three terrorists. The security forces burst into the Kashkosh home and opened fire with automatic weapons killing Reuven Kashkosh, his sons, Fuad and Samir, and his daughter Joyce, and mortally wounding his wife, Clementine.
The disclosures were made by a tourist who recently visited
Iraq. He told ITIM, the Israeli news .agency, that the tragedy occurred as the Kashkosh family was packing its bags to leave Iraq.
Mrs. Kashkosh managed to crawl out of her home and told the story before she died.
Another Kashkosh daughter, Dori, was saved because she was attending classes at the university at the time. She is currently reported to be living with a Jewish family in Baghdad.
The tourist said that Iraqi Jews believe that all the Jews who have disappeared in Baghdad since last Sept. have been killed because, the authorities have confiscated their property.
MEIR TRUSTS NIXON
JERUSALEM-Stating she was convinced, that President Nixon would not let Israel down in his summit talks with Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev in Washington next month. Premier Golda Meir emphasized that she anticipates no change in U.S. Mid-East policy and could only hope for a change for the better in Brezhnev's policy.
NO SADAT TALKS
JERUSALEM — There is absolutely no foundation to press reports that President Anwar Sadat of Egypt has agreed to proximity talks with Israel on reopening the Suez Canal without prior conditions, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
AID ARAB JEWS
JERUSALEM —Deputy Premier Yigal Allon said that Israel has taken steps to alleviate the situation of Jews in Iraq and Syria but did not disclose nature of the steps.
OVER 113 JEWISH STUDENTS GRADUATE AT UBC AND SFU
lay Sachs Clinic this, next Sunday
The community's first attempt to identify and inform all Jews .who are at high risk for passing on the Tay Sachs gene will be held this Sunday June 3 and next Sunday June 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Centre.
All Jews between the ages of 15 and 45 are being urged to attend this Tay Sachs Clinic. Officials stres.s that married couples be present, register and stay together during the Clinic.
A simple blood test determines
whether or not one is a carrier of Tay Sachs disease. These blood samples will be taken by volunteer experienced medical personnel.
Once a Tay Sachs carrier is identified, couples can determine to be tested during the early weeks of pregnancy and the further occurence of the disease can be prevented, officials pointed out.
Clinic participants will be asked to fill out registration forms
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Over 113 Jewish students were announced in the graduation lists published recently by the University of British Columbia and Simon Eraser university. SFU awarded 800 degrees at spring convocation May 26 and UBC three-day exercises, which saw 3,331 graduate, end today June 1.
The UBC ceremonies were highlighted by presentation of the Governor-General's gold medal to Arthur J. Rosenthal for heading the arts-sciences graduating class.
. Sydney Bass was awarded the Hamber Gold Medal and $250 prize for heading medicine graduating class.
Mr. Justice Nathan T. Nemetz, who was installed as UBC Chancellor in August 1972, presided over the UBC exercises.
Yesterday, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree was conferred upon Dr. Sylvia Ostry, chief statistician for Statistics Canada and a noted economist.
Arthur Rosenthal, 21, of 744 West 53rd Ave., compiled a better than 90 percent average for four years of university. He finished first in his class at Winston
Churchill Secondary school in 1969 and second in the province.
Mr. Rosenthal attended Beth Israel religious school and celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah at B.I.
ARTHUR ROSENTHAL . . . tops Arts-Sciences
He is the son of UBC chemistry professor Dr. Alex Rosenthal and Bess Rosenthal.
Rosenthal will attend Harvard university as. a graduate student in applied mathematics under an annual $4,000 Imperial Oil graduate research fellowship. He is presently working as a laboratory assistant in the National Research Council's chemical spectroscopy laboratory in Ottawa.
Sydney Bass arrived in Vancouver in 1967 from his native Winnipeg. He holds a BSc from University of Manitoba and MSc from UBC and plans to intern in Edmonton. Dr. Bass and his wife are affiliated here with Temple Sholom.
The following list was compiled from the names of the thousands of graduates as released by the universities. Consultant was Mrs. Harvey Gerber, program-director of Hillel Foundation.
Because there is no official lists of Jewish graduates or Jewish students on the campuses,
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