The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today that it learned of a new Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience. According to the Tashkent newspaper. Pravda Vostoka, Yakov Kaufman has been sentenced to a long prison term. The NCSJ said it did not know when he was sentenced or for how long and did not have any immediate information about Kaufman. According to the report in the newspaper, cited by the NCSJ. Kaufman was sentenced because his views “are close to those of the Zionists and sometimes even identical to them.”
The article also stated that Kaufman “yielded to the influence of Zionist anti-Soviet propaganda and found himself in the captivity of Zionist theories.” He was sentenced, the report continued, “for the systematic spread of deliberately false information, vilifying, the Soviet government, and for the preparation and distribution of written works of the same content.”
Three persons were killed and 41 were injured yesterday when a bus overturned on a slippery road on the way to a ski site on the slopes of Mt. Hermon. Helicopters transferred the injured to hospitals. Twelve of the victims were reported in serious condition.
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