One of the 10 Soviet Jewish activists ordered last week to report for military duty has been ordered to see a psychiatrist, according to Jewish sources in the Soviet Union. The sources said Victor Yakhout, a scientist and an officer in the Red Army reserve, faces a psychiatric examination. Yakhout is regarded as one of the most militant of the Jewish reservists protesting their call-up orders. All have applied for exit visas to go to Israel. The orders to report for duty are seen as a device to get the most militant Jewish activists out of Moscow before President Nixon arrives there for summit talks on May 22.
The Chicago branch of the American Jewish Committee reported that Mrs. Anna Levin of Sverdlovsk has appealed to Jews abroad to intervene with Soviet officials to prevent the arrests of her husband and herself and another Jewish protestor, Vladimir Markman.
According to the AJCommittee, the KGB publicly accused Markman of anti-Soviet activities and Mrs. Levin fears that she and her husband, Mark, may be arrested along with Markman although they were not involved in protests. She urged Jews to intervene with Interior Minister Oriashin Pavlovich and the Jewish Affairs official, Pavel Petrovich, both of Sverdlovsk. The Levins are the parents of six-year-old twin sons.
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