An Elysee Palace senior official received two Jewish leaders who asked for President Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s intervention on behalf of Anatoly Sharansky, the imprisoned Soviet Jewish activist. Jean Pierre-Bloch, president of the International League Against Anti-Semitism and Racism (LICA) and head of the French B’nai B’rith, and Salomon Friederich, president of the French Union of Jews from Eastern Europe, drew the Elysee Secretary General Jean Francois-Poncet’s attention to the plight of Sharansky.
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