Betar, a militant Zionist youth group, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that it was urging American travel agents to boycott travel to Russia. Betar spokesman Kenneth Arfa said the group was preparing a mass mailing to 900 travel agencies in the New York area and eventually to travel agencies all over the country asking them to refrain from booking travel to Russia in protest against the current mistreatment of Russian Jews. He said the travel agents who joined the boycott would be asked to give their clients the reason for it.
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