Joel Pichney, a 25-year-old Chicago student who has been studying in Russia on an exchange program, was accused by a Leningrad youth newspaper of “whispering to strangers in the streets of Leningrad about discriminations against Jews in Russia, ” according to a Moscow dispatch received here today. The newspaper, Smyens, called for the expulsion of Pichney. Linking his alleged “anti-Communist ravings” with charges of “speculation, ” the customary accusation against Jews in the USSR in recent years, Smyena stated that Pichney should be “kicked out of the country.”
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