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Kiev Ref usenik Gets Four-Year Jail Term
NEW YORK (JTA) — Kiev refusenik Iosif Berenshtein, .
charged with allegedly "resisting arrest," was convicted and
sentenced to four years imprisonment on' Dec. ,10, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry learned last week. The
maximum penalty for the charge is five years. Berenshtein,
a 47-year-old engineer, was arrested on Nov. 12 while in nearby Novograd Vilinsky to answer allegations of economic
crimes made jagainst his aunt, which have since, been
dropped.       '"       ~'
Congressman Kaslch Meets With Mubarak
JERUSALEM; (JTA) —United States Congressman John
Kasich (R. Ohio) spent two days in Egypt last week which included a 75-minute meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.
Describing their meeting as "very open and very candid,"
Kasich was quoted in reports from Cairo as saying that Mubarak told him that he welcomed a meeting with Israeli Premier Shimon Peres. According to Kasich, a member of the
House Armed Services Committee, Mubarak seeks a gradual
improvement in relations between Israel and Egypt and welcomes meeting with Peres some time next year.
Jewish Community Concerned
Over New Australian Government
MELBOURNE (JTA) — Labor Party leader Bob Hawke's
new government, recently sworn into office, has raised some
concern in the Jewish community that changes in Australia's
Middle East policy may be in the offing. Although Hawke's
pro-Israel sympathies remain strong, some Jews fear that
Australia's newly acquired membership in the United Nations Security Council might lead to efforts by the Foreign
Ministry to placate "the Third World governments which
votedfor Australia's admission. That wo^l mean, they.say,
that'on.critical,votes affecting Israel, JSstralia might abstain rather than vote with the United States, which is almost
always supportive of the Israeli position. %
Shultz Letter Says U.S. Aid To Israel
Hinges On Economic Recovery Plan
lion in U.S. military and
economic aid for. the fiscal
year 1986, which begins next
Oct. 1. This is $1.5 billion
more than the $2.6 billion Israel will receive during fiscal 1985, all of it in grants.
The media reports said
Shultz's letter advised Peres
that his government would
have to demonstrate that the
increased aid will be put to
JERUSALEM, (JTA)
Premier Shimon Peres confirmed last week that he had
received a letter from Secretary of State George Shultz
making clear thatjie would
not support Israel's requests
for increased U.S. economic
aid unless and until the Israeli government produced a
comprehensive economic recovery plan.
Peres, addressing Central
Bureau of Statistics officials,
said it should serve as a
warning bell. He said that
Shultz complimented the
government for doing more
.to help the economy than its
predecessors. But at the
same time, the Secretary of
State pointed to grave dangers close at hand "unless
we act faster and do more,"
Peres said.
Shultz's letter had been the
subject of media reports. According to the media, Shultz
sent a three-page letter to
the Premier after the first
round of meetings of the
Joint U.S.-Israel Economic    	
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which,.Israel,formally sub—FeOClOf FeClOrenKO
mitted-*its>: request "for in-
good use and will not simply
fuel inflation. American officials have been demanding a
detailed economic plan from
Israel to justify its new requests.
Haaretz reported that
while Shultz acknowledged
to Peres that the unity
government has indeed
slashed its budget, more remained to be pruned. He
Is Soviet Stance Changing?
NCSJ Reports 41 Soviet Jewish
Families Receive Exit Visas
NEW YORK (JTA) - At
least ten Soviet Jewish families from Moscow, all long-
term refuseniks,- received
exit visas to Israel two
weeks ago, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported. The news, which
the NCSJ said it sees as a
"small but significant reversal in annual emigration
trends," marks only the
second time in over eight
creased aid.
Israel is seeking $4.1 bil-
Columbus Plants Over 1,500 Trees On
Jewish National Fund's Green Sunday
Over 50 volunteers manned the telephones locally for the nationwide Jewish National
Fund Green Sunday, Dec. 9. The Columbus community planted over 1,500 trees to increase the greenery of Israel and improve the quality of life for her inhabitants. Chairpersons Joyce Bloch and Ken Blum, stated, "We are elated that th&resppnse from the k
community took us pver our goal. The overwhelming desire of the community to assist
the Jewish National Fund in this endeavor gave to the spirit and dedication of all our
volunteers." ."      . „ -   ' '    \
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Deported To USSR
NEW YORK, (JTA) -
Feodor Fedorenko was deported Friday from the
United States to the Soviet
Union for lying about his
Nazi past as a prison guard
at the Treblinka concentration camp, when he entered
the U.S. in 1949.
The 77-year-,old retired
construction worker, who
lived in Philadelphia, arrived in the Soviet Union last
week where he could face
war crimes charges. Offt.
cials for the Justice Depart?
ment's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) indicated
they were uncertain what
the Soviets would do with
fedorenko.
Fedorenko's deportation
and flight from Kennedy International Airport here cul-
minated a seven-year-
government effort to strip
Fedorenko of his American
citizenship he obtained in
1970 and to have him deported. A last minute appeal
tov the Supreme Court to
prevent his deportation was
rejected.
The OSI said Fedorenko
served as a prison guard at
Treblinka in 1942 and 1943
and had taken part in beatings and persecution of pris-
. oners at the death camp
where an estimated 800,000
people were killed.
The immigration service
first filed denaturalization
proceedings against Fedorenko in 1977, charging that
he had obtained his citizen-
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months that Jews from the
Soviet capital were granted
permission to emigrate. The
first visas issued in that city
came in November, when 12
Muscovite Jews were permitted to leave.
Included in the report and
being confirmed by the
NCSJ, is news that an addU
tional 30 families from
Tbilisi and one family from
Kaunus, in Lithuania, have
also received exit permits.
All are long-term refuseniks,
who have sought emigration
to Israel for more than eight
years.
, Although the identities and
the size of each family are
unknown at this time, the
NCSJ noted that the total
number could well surpass
the monthly emigration
average of 73 which has distinguished 1984 as the "worst
year for emigration in nearly 20 years." To date, only
805 Soviet Jews have been
permitted to emigrate to Israel.
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urged "structural changes"
in the Israeli economy,
Haaretz said, meaning apparently that the State must.
stop funding uneconomical
businesses and projects.
' According to Haaretz,
Shultz -counselled a steep
drop in living standards in
Israel and greater autonomy
for the Bank of Israel, the
country's central bank, so.
that it could restrain the
printing of money to cover
budget deficits. The author-.
ity to print money presently
rests with the Treasury.
Israel Radio reported that
official figures for 1984
would show an eight percent
decline in living standards
and a substantial narrowing
of the balance of payments
gap.
Israeli Coalition
Crisis Resolved
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —A
bitter dispute over portfolios
between two religious
parties that could have
brought down the Labor-
Likud unity government,
was resolved last week.
But the crisis atmosphere
generated by the imbroglio
which involved two factions,
each with only four Knesset
mandates, reminded Israelis
of the fragility of the three-
month-old unity coalition
and raised concern that it
could founder easily if disputes arise over more vital
and fundamental issues.
, A  compromise  formula
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Klarsfeld Book To Be Used
As Evidence In Barbie Trial
PARIS (JTA) - A book de- „
scribing the arrest and
deportation to death camps
of 44 Jewish children when
Klaus Barbie was gestapo
chief in Lyon will be part of
the evidence presented
against the Nazi war criminal when he goes on trial, possibly next summer.
The book, The Children of
Izieu: A Jewish Tragedy,
was .compiled by lawyer
Serge Klarsfeld who with his
wife Beate, have devoted
their lives to tracking down
-war criminals and bringing
them to justice. The couple
was instrumental in prevailing on the Bolivian govern-
. ment to expel Barbie a year
ago. He had lived in Bolivia
for some 30 years under the
alias KlausAltmann.
Following his ouster early
in 1983, he was taken into
custody by  the French
authorities. He is presently
confined to the Mont Luc
Fort prison in Lyon, where
he and his gestapo henchmen once interrogated their
victims.
Klarsfeld's book is based
on letters and documents
found at the Izieu children's
home from where, in April,
1944, the 44 Jewish children
were deported. All perished
in the Auschwitz gas chambers. A picture of each child
appears in the book with biographical sketches describing the youngsters and their,
family backgrounds.
..Klarsfeld said at a press
conference here this week
that "one of the aims of this
book is to give faces and real
identities to the 44 victims. It
would have been unthinkable
to have held the (Barbie)
trial without restoring their
Jewish identities."  , •