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VOL.tiO   NO. 26
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viet Emigration
void Worsens
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The record of the Soviet
Union with respect to emigration and family reunification "continued to worsen"
during the six month period
ending last April 30, according to the President's 12th
semiannual report to the
Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe on
Implementation of the Helsinki Final Act. It cited "the
continuing deterioration of
East-West relations" as the
cause.
The report, submitted by
the State Department to
Rep. Dante Fascell (D.
Fla.), chairman of the Congressional group which
monitors compliance with
the Helsinki accords, said
that while freer travel policies were detected in Eastern Europe, the Soviet government denied its citizens
that right. The report noted
that the Soviet government
is signatory to several international documents which
assert the right of citizens to
leave their countries.
Family reunification is the
only officially recognized
basis for emigration from
the Soviet Union. The report
found that Poland, Rumania
and the USSR had the largest number of unresolved
family reunification cases in
the six month period reviewed. Other Eastern European countries covered by
the report are Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, the German
Democratic Republic and
Hungary.
The report stated: "The
Soviet record in areas of
emigration and family reuni-„
fication continued to worsen
during the review period ...
With the continuing deterioration of East-West relations, family reunification
applicants from widely varying areas of the Soviet Union
reportedly are being denied
exit permits 'because of the
current state of relations
between the U.S. and the
USSR.' "
The report noted that, in
1979, Rumania established a
system of voluntary registration with the Federation
of Rumanian Jewish Communities for Rumanian Jews
wishing to emigrate. But
there was a backlog of
approximately 300 individuals who registered over a
year ago, the report found.
. Emigration to Israel in 1982
is somewhat lower than in
1980, the report observed;
Other human rights aspects
discussed in the-report included religious contacts;
dissemination of information; working conditions for
journalists; bi-national marriage cases and cooperation
and exchange in the fields of
culture and education.
ubHc Opinion Turns
B.B. Seeks Member Survivors
Of Pre-war Europe
WASHINGTON (JTA)-B'nai B'rith International has asked Jews throughout the world to help locate the surviving
members of its pre-World War II lodges. B'nai B'rith officials
said that at one time those members numbered several thousand but the survivors are so few and so dispersed no one
knows how many there now are or where they are. Before the'
War, there were 80 lodges in Europe, with 90 percent of them
in Germany. Most of them were disbanded by Nazitgovern-
ment orders in 1937. Their members either fled to scattered
havens in six continents or disappeared into Nazi death
camps.
v@r Lebanon
Europeans Support Soviet Jewry
AMSTERDAM (JTA)—The European Interparliamentary
Conference adopted a resolution here calling on the Soviet
Union to permit more Jews to emigrate, free Jews imprisoned for applying for exit visas and to allow a European
parliamentary commission to investigate conditions under
which Jews live in the USSR. The Conference, meeting in the
Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, was
attended by representatives from Holland, Britain, Belgium,
France, Sweden, Austria and Ireland.
Renewed Terrorism Feared
AMSTERDAM, (JTA)—Informed sources in Jordan have
predicted a new wave of^terrorist activity by Palestinians in
Western Europe, directed primarily against Jewish targets
but at American institutions as well, the newspaper NRC
Handelsblad reported recently. The paper's correspondent in
Amman, Harm Botje, said that according to the Jordanian
sources, a fierce debate is going on among Palestine Liberation Organization and other terrorist leaders who have taken
refuge in west Beirut after the defeat of the PLO by Israel in
Lebanon.
Pope Issues Appeal
ROME (JTA)—Pope John Paul II issued another urgent
appeal for peace in Lebanon. In a statement recently published in the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano; he appeared to refer obliquely to Israel„when he expressed hope
"that in the soul of he who seems to be prevailing, magnanimity may triumph, wisdom and far-sightedness .. ."
PARIS (JTA)—The editor
of the traditionally pro-Israel weekly Canard En-
chaine expected a storm of
verbal outrage when he
showed his editorial board
last week a vehemently anti-
Israel article describing the
Israeli invasion of Lebanon
as a "massacre." To his surprise, after a moment of silence, someone asked
"Shouldn't we hit harder?"
What happened at the Canard is typical of the overall
reaction in France where
public opinion and militants,
belonging to both the government and opposition parties,
are far more outspoken in
their denunciation of "Israel's aggression" than the
traditional political leadership.
For the first time, the split
is between a pro-Israel leadership, relatively moderate
in its condemnations of Israel's policies, and a far
more vehement public opinion. Traditionally, the rift
had always been the other
way round, as Presidents
Charles De Gaulle, George
Pompidou and Valery Gis-
card d'Estaing learned at
their expense.
The process of this dramatic turnabout was slow. For
the first two days of the
"Peace for Galilee" operation, public opinion and the
press reacted in the traditional way as far as Israel is
concerned. Admiration was
expressed for the valor of Israel's troops and understanding for the need to clear
. the Palestinian terrorists out
of southern Lebanon to prevent them from threatening
Israeli settlements and the
civilian population in northern Galilee.
Both television and the
print media stressed the
"defensive" opinion that the
campaign was launched in
retaliation for the attack on
Israel's Ambassador in London. Syria, moreover is;probably the most: unpopular
foreign country in France
both for. historic reasons and
the suspicion that Damascus
was behind the recent terror-:
ist attacks which killed and
maimed dozens of Frenchmen.
But as Israeli troops pushed deeper into Lebanon's
heart marching on Beirut,
public opinion started to
switch. For a day.br two, it
seemed uncertain but as
television newsreels started
showing the shellings and
bombardments of civilian
areas, including some of
Lebanon's main towns, public opinion turned the other
way.
Newspapers Rap Israel
One paper after another,
first the usually anti-Israel
Le Monde, but then the rest
of the press and television
networks, began to speak of
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Reagan Sends School Tax
Credit Bill To Congress
U.S.. West German Agreement
On Extraditing War Criminals
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-
The United States and West
Germany have agreed to cooperate in the extradition of
non-German Nazi war criminals found to be residing illegally in the United States,
U.S. Attorney General
William French Smith has
announced.
The joint effort came
about as the result of an exchange of letters earlier this
year between Smith and
Juergen Schmude, Justice
Minister of the West German
Federal Republic: Smith
asked Schmude if his government would consider requesting the extradition of
identified. war criminals
such as Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians and others of
non-German origin who
worked for the Nazis in oc
cupied   countries   during
World War II.
Schmude noted in his reply
that while German jurisdiction normally does not extend to crimes committed
beyond German borders, he
agreed with Smith that each
case must be considered on
its own merits and that special circumstances in a particular case could lead to a
conclusion that the basis for
an extradition request exists. Schmude asked for further evidence in specific
cases under investigation by
the Department of Justice.
Four Cases        •
Four cases have been
heard or are pending in
which the U.S. seeks to re
voke the citizenship of alleged war criminals who
gained admission to this
country by concealing their
Nazi past and were naturalized later.
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The Reagan Administration
sent its controversial tuition
tax credit bill to Congress
last week. It would allow
parents of children attending
parochial and other private
schools to deduct up to 50
percent of each child's tuition from their taxable income.
The measure, similar to
one introduced early this
year by Sens. Daniel Moyni-
han (D. NY), Robert Pack-
wood (R. Ore.) and William
Roth (R. Del.), would allow
a maximum deduction of
$100 per child in 1983, $300 in
1984 and $500 in 1985 and
thereafter. The cost to the
Treasury by 1987 is estimated at $1.5 billion.
The bill is expected to be
introduced in the Senate this
week by Robert Dole (R.
Kan.) and in the House by
Reps. Willis Gradison (R.
Ohio) and Mario Biaggi (D.
N.Y.). It is strongly opposed
by civil libertarian and. civil
rights groups which question
its constitutionality. It is
equally strongly supported
by   Roman   Catholic   and
Orthodox Jewish groups.
Under the Administration
bill, the maximun deduction
would be phased out for families with annual incomes
over $50,000 and would not
apply to those with incomes
over $75,000 or to college students. The Administration
measure also contains an
anti-discrimination provision which has come under
attack by civil rights groups.
The latter contend that it is
without substance because it
would place the burden of
proof of discrimination on in-
dividual complainants
rather than on schools accused of racial or religious
discrimination.
Orthodox Back Bill
Rabbi Menachem Lubin-
sky, director of government
and public affairs for
Agudath Israel of America,
who attended the ceremony
at which President Reagan
announced his transmittal of
the tuition tax credit proposal to Congress,; said;he
told  the  President  that
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