Seven New York Jewish students, who were detained for several hours for demonstrating at the Moscow visa office Friday for Soviet Jews were released later in the day and told they could complete their visit to Russia which was scheduled to end yesterday, according to reports received here.
The seven were identified by a spokesman for the Conscience Committee for Soviet Jewry as Yossi Klein, 19, Philip Pulver. 19, Philip Kornbluth, 27, Jules Leventhal, 19, Alan Bindinger,18, Robin Schwartz,17 and Rivka Friedman, 19, Another spokesman gave the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a list of names which differed in some details and said that the Conscience Committee was “connected with” the Zionist Revisionists of America and that the demonstrations were the first in a series planned within Russia.
Prof. Marnin Feinstein, public affairs director of the Revisionist group, in a statement issued Friday in New York, said that the organization had sent a telegram to Secretary of State William P. Rogers, asking State Department intervention for the seven American Jews. According to reports received in Washington, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said the students chanted slogans “Let my people go,” and “Liberty, liberty.” They did not resist arrest and were taken away in police cars.
200 Jewish immigrants arrived in Lod Airport today from the Soviet Union. They included 60 academicians who did not pay the education tax which the USSR has reportedly suspended.
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