Soviet Supreme Court Will Hear Dr. Stern’s Appeal

The Soviet Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of Dr. Mikhail Stern, the Ukrainian doctor now serving an eight-year sentence, it was reported today by Inez Weissman, president of the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry, and the Emergency Coalition for Soviet Jews. She said she learned this in a telephone call from the physician’s son, Dr. August Stern, who is in Europe seeking aid for his father.

“I and my family in the Soviet Union are most hopeful that this important legal step means that my father will soon be free,” the younger Dr. Stern said. “We are confident that the Supreme Court in Moscow after investigating the evidence against my father will come to the only possible conclusion, that the Ukrainian courts made a mistake and will recognize my father’s innocence.”