Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate test, of course, will be world stability. Détente is in some jeopardy because the Soviets may refuse to permit sufficient Jewish emigration, thus losing their recently granted most-favored-nation status. Crises could flare up in Viet Nam, Cambodia, the Middle East?testing the mettle of the President as many of his predecessors have been challenged...
...Turning to the trade bill and Jewish emigration from Russia. Many groups if not all citizens in the Soviet Union are, by our definition, unfree. Why is it right for the United States to make such an extraordinary effort for Soviet Jewish citizens...
...There are a number of ethnic groups in this country who come from various parts of the Soviet Union who seriously ask that same question-Latvians, Estonians and others. Quite frankly, I think there is a stronger pressure group [in the U.S.] on behalf of Jewish emigration. Now, I am told, and I think the sources are accurate, that the Jewish population within Russia has always had serious problems, regardless of geographical or other considerations. So that may be a factor...
...Jews, it appeared to be a clear step backward from an earlier working draft of guidelines in 1969-leaked at that time to the press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between Jews and Israel will doubtless loom large in their conversations...
Died. Joseph J. Schwartz, 75, activist on behalf of Jewish refugees; in Manhattan. As director of the Joint Distribution Committee of the United Jewish Appeal before and during World War II, Schwartz traveled the periphery of Nazi-occupied Europe from Lisbon to Istanbul negotiating the release of threatened Jews, later helped hundreds of thousands of death-camp survivors reach Israel, Canada, Latin America...