The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews advised President Nixon by telegram last night that his meeting with Jewish activists would be “one of the ways that you can respond to the many Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, who have made many requests that the Soviet Jewish problem be included on your Moscow agenda in May.”
Harold B. Light, first vice-chairman of the Council, reminded Nixon that four Soviet Jewish activists–Roman Rutman, Viktor Polsky, Vladimir Slepak and Prof. Aleksander Lerner–had made the request for a meeting with Nixon in a recent telephone conversation with Prof. David Korn, head of the Russian Department of Howard University in Washington.
“The courage of these four scientists is incredible,” Light said in a separate statement, “They have all lost their jobs or suffered severe harassments by Soviet authorities after applying for exit visas. It is only by talking with Jews who can relate their own personal experiences that our President can get the true picture.”
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