About 30 representatives of the Students Struggle for Soviet Jewry put up a pictorial display outside the Gallery of Modern Art on Columbus Circle yesterday to “counter” a Soviet photographic exhibit being held inside. The display consisted of photographs, posters and documents on the alleged repression of Jews in the USSR. According to Glen Richter, a spokesman for the group, its purpose was to present what the Soviet exhibit omitted–Moscow’s current campaign against Israel and its denial of basic rights to Soviet Jews. Mr. Richter said the counter-exhibit would follow the Soviet exhibit to Chicago, San Francisco, San Antonio and New Orleans. He said it also would be staged again in New York as long as the Soviet display remained here. He said some persons emerging from the Soviet exhibit were hostile but no incidents occurred. Police were on hand but did not interfere with the street-corner activity.
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