The Borough President of Manhattan and a New York Congressman who is a candidate for the mayoral nomination joined a demonstration by some 500 persons outside the New York offices of Aeroflot, the Soviet Airline, in a demonstration yesterday on behalf of the Jews in the USSR. The demonstration was the second organized during the Passover period by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The first was held last week near the Soviet Mission to the United Nations.
Borough President Percy Sutton, a Negro, declared that oppression must be condemned, whether it occurs in Mississippi or in the Ukraine. Rep. James Scheuer, New York Democrat, called on Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin to honor the pledge he made in Paris on Dec. 3,1966 to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate if they so desired in order to be reunited with their families abroad. The student group said they chose to demonstrate at the Soviet airline offices to symbolize their demand for a “freedom airlift” for Soviet Jews. They chanted, “Let my people go.”
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