Relatives of Jewish prisoners in the Soviet Union want to hold a meeting with President Nixon to ask him to do something when he visits Moscow to free their relatives.
The Israeli relatives of the prisoners–mostly new immigrants from the USSR — sent letters to President Ephraim Katzir, Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Algal Allon in which they criticize those who claim that the conditions of Jews in the Soviet Union are an internal Soviet problem. In the letter they said that soon it will be four years since their relatives were imprisoned for wanting to go to Israel. In the letter to Rabin and Allon they asked them to arrange a meeting with Nixon when he comes to Israel.
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