Delegates to the fall conference here of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews urged that the 1980 Olympic Games be removed from Moscow to a site in the West. The delegates held several sessions on the Games and speakers warned that the Games may be preceded by increased arrests of leading refusniks to remove their “embarrassing presence” before the international press corps arrives to report on the Olympics.
Joyce Starr of the White House foreign policy staff told the delegates that the Carter Administration can be effective on the human rights issue only if there is strong citizen support behind it. She urged that concerned Americans continue to let their elected officials know about the denial of rights to Jews in the Soviet Union.
Robert Gordon of Sudbury, Mass. was elected president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, succeeding lrene Manekofsky. The conference was held last week.
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