Some 150 students and faculty members at Princeton University in New Jersey staged a sympathy hunger strike today in solidarity with David Azbel, Vitaly Rubin and Vladimir Galatsky who are continuing their hunger strike in Azbel’s Moscow apartment which began last Friday, it was reported by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. According to the NCSJ, New Jersey’s U.S. Senators Clifford P. Case, a Republican, and Harrison A. Williams, a Democrat, sent messages expressing their sympathy with the hunger-striking Soviet Jewish activists and the action of the students and faculty members. At the same time a group of some 200 students and faculty members at Columbia University here held a peaceful rally on the college campus backing university administration’s efforts to convince the USSR to permit Rubin, an authority on ancient China, to come to Columbia to teach.
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