LAUNCH U J A CAMPAIGN TO FUND NEW JXODUS
The most intensive United Jewish Appeal comppign in the histoiy of the Vancouver Community- will be bunched this Monday with on objective higher than thot of any past year
it will seek to meet the needs of the new exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union as well as to mointoin ongoing old to needy Jews in Israel, North Africa, Europe and other countries of the^^i^
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Campaign chainnen, Sid-Zack and Mrs. Sidney K a p 1 an -have announced that opening functions of the appeal which will hear a strong Israeli supporter, Senator Mike Gravel, who is enroute to Washington from his home state of Alaska, and who will address
thi^ Women's Division Pace-setters* reception this Monday afternoon and the Men's Top Gifts Dhmer in the evening.
Mcs. Kaplan pointed out that the: Women's Pacieset-ters event, upcoming 5 p.m. at thehome of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Glassman, will be fol-
lowed by • a Canvasser's Clinic on April 17 and the Womeii's Luncheon April 26. Women's U.J,A. will cul* minate with tiie second mammoth Telethon scheduled Aprjl 30 and, May 1. A Telethon Clinic fio precede (Continued on Page 2) £{ee CAMPAIGN
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^lOSfidf details : of ^ cpntiiwiifig--^Ni:ibn^M^^^ liaMssmehts 6t 'Jews inr Potntia, capital. Xhey state that they will the riotoridus Soviet labor camp, starid: with a sign, "Let XJsGp to Accojjdihg to SSSJ,YalcoySus-^^ Isi'ael." There has been no oMcial
SVA^BIJTRIAN, left, and Mn. Siini lUililnsky^ right, wives Soviet Jewish piiamien HiUel Bdtauiit imd JUiu^ Kaminsky, rfowfnlly ponder their fiitiin8.M^.Kaiiiiiiisky^^^l^ re-itly releasiBd to Israel, but Mrsi; :Butiniiii was savagely beatep A abiised for six hiNirs by of fleers March 20 after wmiliff. from a visit to her husband at the Toma labor camp. Iplacard-carryliig group of 100 demonstrators marched past the' det Embassy in Washington last week to protest Mrs. Butman's
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fONTREAL'--r A complete and ibridged tape and transcript of telephone conversation b^twee^ ^riel Shapiro, Jewish resistahce feder in Moscow, and the Soviet twry Committee of the Canadian
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Zionist Federation, has been forwarded to the Right Honorable Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister oif Canada.
In : the telephone conversation Thursday, March 23, Mr. Shapiro indicated that he knew thatCana-dian Jewry would be meeting with the Prime Minister'the next day and asked that Mr. Trudeau's aid be solicited in obtaining exit visas for Jews in the U.S.S.R. who wish to leave for Israel;
Russian Jews who spoke were ,Gavriel Shaiiiro, Zev Vladimir Machlis and jsiark Nashpitz. The conversation was carried on in Hebrew and Russian. , "It is hoped that the actual voices of the Soviet Jews will motivate the Prime Minister to use his good offices on behalf of the persecuted Jewish minority in the Soviet Union," FZOC officials stressed.
: lensky, Boris Pehson and, Harry Kirsiher. have been denied their two-ruble wages for fulfillihg their work quotas. The quotas are set very high and difficult to attain; the money is needed to purchase additional food without which survival is jeopardized.
Lev Yagman, who suffered a series of heart attacks because of his heavy work, was denied permission to^ go to a lighter form of labor, Victor Boguslavsky has also suffered a heart attack.
Arkady Shpilberg received a food parcel from the United States. The camp authorities showed him the package, but refused tO give it to him. He was told, "When it is rotteh, we will throw it out."
A prison breakfast consists of one-liter of meatless, watery soup; lunch, 200 grams of oatmeal; supper, 20 grams of rotten fish and rotten potatoes. According to relatives of the prisoners, the potatoes are so rotten that inmates are given receptacles in which to throw them at meals.
Four Moscow activists — Alexander Slepak, 20 year-old son of Vladimir Slepak, Michael Kliach-kin, Victor . Echod and Leonid Tsipin — have requested official permission from the Moscow city executive to demonstrate at Soviet-skaya Ploshched Square in
S. Africa Consul
TEL AVIV - A" senior South African diplomat. Dr. Charles Fincham, appointed S.. Africa's first Consul-General to Israel, wiil open S. Africa's Consulate-General in Tel Aviv this month.
response yet from the authorities. . Mrs. Ludmilla Prussakbv,'who with her husband Valantin are active in the Moscow Jewish re-stistance, has sent an appeal to Mrs. Pat Nixon.
"Please take my letter as an S.O.S. signal," Mrs. Prussakov wrote. "My husband and I are forcefully detained here in violation of universally recognized human rights and freedoms. In the eyes of an ignorant Soviet man we are traitors, spies, agents of imperialism and simply kikes. We are not even 60 and our Jewish State is much younger. We want to be of help to our country and our people rather than be useless weights in a place where nothing awaits us except humiliation and abuse."
Bank electnuis
JERUSALEM — Over 85 percent of voters participated without disturbances ih first municipal elections in West Bank since Six-Day War. Large vote was seen
as substantial success for Israeli adminstration in Judea and Samaria. Under Jordan only 75 percent turned out to vote in 1964.
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TEL. AVIV—About 100 members of Israeli military mission to Uganda and their families have returned in'response to Uganda
jp^^idifiit^ ^^di■]Air|tt^i5^j)r|J^^^ their withdr^ ^chirging they constituted si fifth column.
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TEL AVIV—Tel Aviv University Prof. Dror Sadeh used Weizmann Institute's geophysics observatory near Eilat for series of scientific experiments which confirm Einstein's 1917 theory that gravity acts in waves, and that a seismograph on earth can serve as an astronomical telescope to measure
movements of stars.
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Lipsky returns
JERUSALEM — French Jewish financier Claude Lipsky has returned to Paris of his own free will to stand trial on charges of fraudulent company management and embezzlement.
1I.S. destroys motzos for USSR
WASHINGTON —Postal auth- of Soviet Jews, said that "in excess orities said they had "disposed of 20,000 pounds" of matzos had
of matzos sent to the Soviet Embassy for Jews in the Soviet Union and refused by the Embassy.
Alfred Buffer, communications officer for metropolitan Washington, told reporters that on authorization from the national level of the postal service, the matzos were removed from the basement of the main post office and "disposed of like any perishable material."
Robert C. Kohler of Newark, director of the New Jersey regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'naiB'rith, which has sponsored the matzo campaign to help draw attention to the plight
been mailed to the Embassy-
AID FOR JEWS IN SYRIA
WASHINGTON-Joseph J.
Sisco, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, promised recently tliat the ir.S. government will do everything possible through diplomatic channels to alleviate the plight of Jews in Syria. Sisco spoke to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at a meeting in the State Department
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