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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE f*m Nwhh WArtAIVWVWyWWVVVS/VVVVWWVWVVVVWWUVVWVWUVVVS/VV Happy Hanuka , LANIER PIANO CO. 631 Lee St., S.W. Atlanta, Ga. 30310 /WAAAAAA/VWVVVVWAWVWVVVWVVWVVVVWAAA/VVW\AA Washington Profile by Joseph Polakoff Friday, Dec. 17, 1971 —, Soviet Propaganda Eleven Distrusted Its Own Jews Happy Hanuka LONDON IRON & METAL 897 Adamson, S. W. Atlanta, Ga. 30315 JVVVWVWSArVVVVVWVV^WVWVV^VVVVVVVVWVVWVWWVV Hanuka Greetings H. & S. WOODCRAFT CO. Marietta Road Smyrna, Ga. Hanuka Greetings GOLDMAN’S Howell House Pharmacy Atlanta, Ga. 710 Peachtree St., N. E. TR. 4-9709 Flanagan the Moving Man 643 Tenth St., N.W. 875-7781 Atlanta, Georgia Hanuka Greeting’s Clearvue Glass Co. 443 Marietta Street, N. W. 524-5616 ATLANTA, GEORGIA WONDERFUL... HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO ONE AND ALL WEST SIDE LOAN OFFICE 337 Peters St., S. W. Atlanta, Ga. 30303 HAPPY HOLIDAYS Collections & Adjustments, Inc. Georgia Savings Bank 525-1881 Bather and Georfe Abramson Atlanta, Georgia HOLIDAY GREETINGS from ! BEACON CLEANERS & LAUNDERERS, INC. Copeland Village Sandy Springs Plaza | 5000 Roswell Road The 18-day tour of the Sov iet Propaganda Eleven to five American cities was marked by its distrust of its Jewish com ponent, shyness to public expos ure, a breakdown in planned Jewish community tactics to meet the group’s propagandist abilities, and high caution by some on Capitol Hill. Originally, American visas were issued to 18 persons, seven or eight of them with identifi able Jewish names. But the team ended up with four Jews and seven companions repre senting six other Soviet nation alities In either case, its pur pose was to reflect harmony among the Soviet’s numerous nationalities and to deny dis crimination exists towards any ethnics including Jews. Although all the visitors were Communist Party members in high professional positions, 1 they traveled and visited under the tight surveillance of Soviet Embassy “interpreters” and “es corts.” Even Col. Gen. David Dragunsky, the star performer on three continents in the Sov iet’s offensive to appeals for the relief of Soviet Jews, wasn’t allowed to go out alone. For example, when the group was invited by Kansas City’s Jewish Federation to see Jewish community life in America’s heartland, only two members responded— Dragunsky and an “English interpreter,” Goga Khidujatov, head of Tashkent University’s history department. The other three Jews in the group speak excellent English. Why one of them didn’t serve as an “interpreter” is anybody’s guess.” When a Washington rabbi invited the group, Dragunsky came with the other three Jews — Dr. Samuel Zivs, depu ty director of the Institute of Law at the Soviet Academy of Sciences; Professor Yuri Gits- man, deputy director of the Cancer Research Institute in Moscow, and Dr Janna Uchvid- ova, of the All-Union Research Institute of Gastroenterology in Moscow and the group’s only woman. But despite their Eng lish fluency, the Jews had to have two non-Jewish compan ions on the visit to the rabbi— Gennady Fedosov, general sec retary of the Institute of Soviet- American Relations in Moscow, who speaks excellent English, and an Embassy “interpreter.” The group’s only genuine pub lic appearance, in Washington, ended abruptly, and, from the Jewish community’s viewpoint, disastrously. Dragunsky’s fail ure to appear at the meeting in Georgetown University promp ted local Jewish Defense League leaders, who somehow passed the scrutiny of door tenders, to shout “where’s the traitor.” When Jewish young people joined in the shouting and someone set off a smoke bomb, Hanuka Greetings TIMBERLAKE SANDWICH SHOP and Catering Service WE SPECIALIZE IN The best corned beef and pastrami sandwiches in town. MEL & IRENE RESNICK 88 Peachtree St., N.W. Atlanta, Georgia Telephone 525-5265 eign Service School properly terminated the session out of courtesy to his guests. The abuse embarrassed and de pressed the Jewish community leaders present. They were pre pared to show documented proof to the audience ^n the precincts of a Jesuit institution that the Soviet government was both illegal and harsh in its treat ment of Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate but they never had a chance. Nor did the comm un confirmed on page 15 HAPPY HANUKA MARVEL Cleaners ATLANTA, GA. 2231 Cheshire Bridge Road, N.E. MElroee 6-1681 Hanuka Greetings H. SUNSHINE & SON, Inc. Gertrude and Stanley Friedman 176 Ottley Dr., N. E. Atlanta, Ga. Distributor of Kosher Products Happy Hanuka GEORGE CORNETT AND ASSOCIATES, INC. Creative Photographers 1555 Fair burn Road, S. W. Atlanta, Ga. 344-3114