The Baltimore Committee for Soviet Jewry has asked the Baltimore Bays management for the opportunity to meet with officials of the Moscow Torpedo team before or after their game today to acquaint them with the privations of Jews in the Soviet Union. In a letter to Jim Karvellas, president of the local soccer team, Sol Goldstein, chairman of the Baltimore Committee for Soviet Jewry, pointed out that with the strict censorship in the USSR the Torpedo team possibly knows nothing of the plight of Soviet Jews.
Pointing out that the local committee was “heartened…to learn” that the Russian soccer team would compete against the local kickers and noting that it was “an indication of increasing bonds” between the countries, nevertheless, Goldstein said, he felt the visitors should know the concern of Baltimoreans for Soviet Jews.
Giving illustrations of discrimination, harassment, and deprivation of civil liberties in the Soviet Union. Goldstein added, “As you can see, the condition of the Jews in the Soviet Union is not a happy one. It is for these reasons that we request that you use your good offices to help us meet with officials of the Moscow Torpedo team.” The letter was sent to the Bays president last Tuesday. As of today, no response was received.
Three Israeli soldiers were ordered to stand trial today for setting fire to a Bedouin family’s tent in the Gaza Strip. The trial was postponed until next week. According to the charges, the soldiers were piqued by the family’s refusal to give them pitta, the round Arab bread, and set fire to the tent causing damage to the property.
Twenty Nablus area residents whose houses were damaged or blown up by security forces will be permitted to rebuild them. The Military Governor of Nablus, Brigadier Eliezer Segev informed Nablus Mayor Haj Maazouz el Masri that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan acceded to requests from Arab leaders to allow the rebuilding.
Israel’s Labor Party has called on the Socialist International to hold its next executive meeting elsewhere than in Malta. This was in protest against anti-Israel statements by Dom Mintoff, Premier.
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