Rep. Hugh L. Carey (D.NY) has written Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger urging him to inform the Soviet Union of American objections to “a particularly tragic and subtle form of harassment against Soviet Jews–the desecration of Jewish cemeteries under the guise of using areas for urban renewal.”
Carey, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, noted that “the latest example of this insensitive policy” is “the disclosure that the ancient Jewish cemetery at Radin, a suburb of Vilna, has been plowed under.” He urged Kissinger “in the name of decency to call for an end to this activity and to seek assurances that the Russians will cease all forms of harassment against the Soviet Jews.”
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