The U.S. charges that the “drastic decline” in Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union is the result of a “deliberate Soviet policy,” not a drop in the requests for emigration. By the end of 1983, only 1,315 Jews leave the Soviet Union, the lowest number since the current phase of emigration began in 1971.
Italy and Israel sign a broad agreement defining the future economic, agricultural, scientific, technological and cultural relations and ways to deal with problems arising for Israel’s agricultural exports from the impending admission of Spain and Portugal into the European Economic Community.
Miguel Angel Olea Enriques, the representative from Chihuahua of the Partido Revolutionario Institution, the ruling party in the Mexican government, in a speech to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, denounces Jews for alleged economic crimes and urges that “we must put a stop to these scoundrels.”
President Raul Alfonsin appoints Dr. Gregorio Klimovsky of the Latin American Branch of the World Jewish Congress, and Rabbi Marshall Meyer, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El in Buenos Aires, to the newly created national commission investigating the disappearance of individuals under previous regimes during the years of Argentina’s “dirty war.”
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