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...suitable jobs later. Some young Jews have gone to Siberia voluntarily in order to study at less crowded universities there. Police surveillance and harassment are on the rise, as evidenced by the raids on 50 Jewish homes in scattered communities following the arrest of the alleged hijackers in Leningrad last June...
...Soviet Jews, world opinion offers partial protection at best. The recent worldwide outcry against the Kremlin's treatment of its Jewish citizens undoubtedly had an impact-the death sentences meted out to two Jews in Leningrad were commuted and a second round of trials of Jews was postponed. Even so, foreign opinion can accomplish only so much. The problem is that Soviet Jews can do even less-unless they are willing to take grave risks. That point was dramatically illustrated last week when Amsterdam's daily De Telcgraaf arranged to telephone, in a still undisclosed manner, a Jewish...
...hardly a siege, and certainly nothing like Corregidor or Leningrad. Still, over the past two months Communist troops have managed to threaten Phnom-Penh with isolation by severing some of its main links with the outside world. The Cambodian capital's plight is an acute embarrassment to the Lon Nol regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh...
...fact that the crime literally never got off the ground underlined the harshness of the verdicts. According to official Soviet accounts, the defendants plotted to commandeer a single-engine AN2 in Leningrad last June 15, fly it to the Swedish town of Boden and ask for asylum in Israel. Many Sovietologists suspect that the eleven walked into a trap prepared by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. For one thing, they were arrested before they even set foot aboard the plane. Within an hour after their arrest, 40 Jewish homes from Riga to distant Kharkov were ransacked by policemen with...
...Leningrad eleven were charged under Article 64 of the Russian criminal code dealing with treason. During the trial, the prosecutor spoke of their intent to kill the Soviet pilot-even though the two "pistols" found in their luggage were reportedly fakes made of brick and clay. To be sure, the defendants pleaded guilty of intent to hijack, an illegal act in almost every country. But their real crime apparently was their expressed desire to live in Israel. Significantly, eight of the defendants had previously been refused exit visas to Israel...