Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Green, Max: Files Folder Title: Soviet Jewry (12) Box: 24 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ · 'HEW VORK .POST, TUESDAY, MAY 'S, '987 PERSPECTIVE · r. • · • .;_; .. • . ~ . l 5o~~ VJ\ , ~ GOrbachev's. ref or ESPITE what even aome normally ueptJ­ I cal hard-llnera think, the fact that MikhaU Gorba­ Chev tlaa embarked on a program of domestic re­ form doea not mean that the stop :,at ·the border .Soviet Union under his lead­ erahlp will pursue a less ag­ IOll•ll cresslve foreign policy. Nor motely compare hi boldness 8UCclnctly: - · . Tbla evidence Is spelled easier for the Soviets not NDlllETZ does the developing detente · j and radlcaliun with Khru- '( .. It waa Khrushchev who ~outIn a 'ftll'Y bnportant only to preserve Commu­ ln · Soviet-American ftla- •hcheV• expoee ot. the ordered the crushing of the pece "1 Samuel P. Hun· nlat regtmea already In ex- Uona mean that the Soviet crimea ot. Stalin. Hunprlul nbelllon. built · ot Harvard whleh 1.tence. but to encourage we mo prepare. to pe tM threat will decline. Quite the · ·. But Khrmhchev. did not tbe Bertin Wall and de- appears In the current ls8ue the creation ~ new onea In green light of detente to contrary: · . conftDe bla attack to Stalin'• plo)'ed Soviet mlalles oa ot The Natlaaal lnterat. the 'nitrd World. Gorbachev'• amblUom In First of all. the history ol character. He alllo at· i Cuba. h wu be who pre- I Aecordinl' to ffuntlncton; Putt1ng all the piecea ot the Third World Russia otter. no wpport for tempted to chance key fu· \ aided over the mlsslle build- there have Ileen two 8oriet tbla Jlpaw puzzle In place. the idea that domatlc re- . tures ot 8talfn'a lepcy. Thia · · · ~.. · IDto the Third we eee a borritylng picture ll'laally, and In some wayw form there requlrea a tum- entailed reforma In .lndua- , - · · • · World and both occurred taking abape. wont of all, we move to ldll 1 off not Gorbachev'• Sandin· Ing inward or a "breather" . try, agriculture and cultural y • , durinC periods ot detente Flrat Gcrbachev Institutes frmn Jntematlonal coaftict. Ute wblcb (except perhape . with the U.S. Tbe ftnt WU lat& clleab In Nicaragua • dome8tlc reforms calcu­ Wt the eaatraa wbo are u anytblng. the opposite bu . In the area of bureaucratlc Historically under IChrU9hcbev and the j lated to IDtc:ireaae his COUD• beesa tbe 4:.Ue. ~ u DI- admlnlstration) went much . • aecond wu under Brezh. ft~ botb In tbe1r own try'a power. and aomehow ad over- mltrl K 8lmea the Car- further In the direction o1 nn. Theae effal1a, IDvoJviDC Interest oura to ot modemizatiOn we b:lterpret tbls to mean tbrow tbem. negle Endowment for Inter- llberallzatJon than anything' - • ma.alve md acalattng that the Soviet Union ts on After ~ ·national Peace reminds us . Gorbachev bu attempted. i at home means . mll1tarJ and eeonomtc ln- the way to beco~ less mch · ln a recent article In For- ~et thla aa.me Khn.lab- ! • terventionlt, paicl off band- dangerous to ua. We there­ feall of 8elf-deltructlon. lt la elgn Affa.lrs. among Rua- who freed mUllona · aggreSSlOn a>mely. '1D the 19609." aa;ya tore decide to give Gorba­ a wonder that we bave arrr alan rulen from Peter the m the GuJac (u ap1nst ab d · .,.HUDUDgtoa. "'there were chev all the ecoaomlc help enerc Wt owr for the oon­ Great to NUdta Khnaahcbev hundred releued . only four aelf-proclalmed sreutooaI llearlnp Into tbe or ao IOa · .. wecan. ~ "the modernlzen Qt.her - by Gorbachev. admittedly _ Kandst-Lenini.t atatea In lrUHX!atra affair that In addition, we prepare ic, than the conaervatlvea have_· from a much smaller popu- the Third World. By the begin. toda7. Evidently. pursued the most amblt10U8 lation ot polltical priaoner8 Iup and the aggressive effort I 1980s there were 16... sign an anm-control agree­ though. enough ·alf-de­ International strategies." · - than · Khnulhchev had In- to organize an 'antl-lmperl- And now? Already, as we ment with him that wW atructlve ru rematna In l !leave Europe more vulner­ Khrushchev, both because berlted from· Stalin), this aJlst coalition' with Third head toward yet another oUr polltlcal culture to keep he was more recent and be- ·· same Khrushchev who al· · World nations that trans· period of detente. there able than ever. to the au- us hot Oil the trail of tboee cause he operated within . lowed one of thoae millions. formed the USSR into a \bave been· llgn1flcant In- perlor conventional forcea great miscreants In our own the Communist system, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. to truly global power... creasea. In Soviet aid to · of the Soviet Union. Fur­ .government who may have provides a more relevant publiah the first words ot Clearly, then, where the Nicaraglia and North . Ko- thermore, we get ready to :committed the unforgivable ·precedent than a czar like truth · about . the·· prison • Soviet Union Is ooncemed, rea. Gorbachev baa alaO re- sign another agreement ~ d .· the that will prevent us from· violatln&" Peter the Great. • ·camps ever to aee the light . Internal reform goes along . affirmed the Brezhnev Doc· . Brezhnev Doctrine when, In building a defense against r Certainly . Khrushchev . of SoViet day - this I very comfortably with tr1ne •hich holds that DO • a ftt of temporary lnsanlty, same ex· the first-strike capablllt;y , LwllB a ~er - and a , , .. Khruahchev. taking advs.n- .• ternal aggreutveness. More Comm~ regime ma;y · we briefly enacted lt Into the Sovieta bave relent­ "J t.much more daring one than tage of the "'tha\t" Jn his ominous yet. there ls evt- ever be OVerthrown. ·And American law "1mder the ' Gorbachev .haa yet proved nlatlons with the U.S.. out· ; :· dence iuggestlng that the aome of his subordinates lessly been developing. ·name of the Boland Amend· or even promises to . be. did Stalin hlmaelf In the fe- ' time Is almost ripe for a bave openly declared that Noi content with thus neu­ ment, lmbiddlng the· U.S. Nothlng GOrbachev has roclty of his actions abroad. new Soviet offensive In the anm-control agreements tralizing ourselves on the .government to aid In top­ done, for ~le. can re-, . Sim.ea sums up the _J"eCOrd Third World with the U.& wW make lt I central front of the struggle, pling the SIDdlnlstaa. UNION OF COUNCILS FOR SOVIET JEWS 1819 H STREET. NW • SUITE 410 • WASHINGTON. DC 20006 • (202) 775-9770 OFFICERS May 21, 1987 P1es1oen1 Pameia Cohen Vice F'resiaents H1noa Cantor For: Members of the Congress, Administration, and Press June Daniels David Waksoerg 11easurer Howard Canlor One of the things that makes the 100,000-member Union of Councils BOARD OF DIRECTORS for Soviet Jews unique among grassroots human rights and rescue Carole Abramson organizations is the extent to which we are in daily contact with Ruay Appel Juoy Balint Refuseniks and other Jewish activists inside the Soviet Union. Leaders Harvey Barnett Ba11ey E>arron among our 40 local councils, four domestic affiliates, and our cooperating Hert:>ert Beller Jett Col'Jn organizations in Israel, England, France, and Canada, gather and Leonia Felaman report important information about the health and welfare of the Dr . Betsy G1dw1tz Shirley Goldstein Refuseniks -- hunger strikes, demonstrations, releases from prison, L1111an Hotlmen Judy Pat•1n official harassment, conditions in the prisons and the psychiatric Dennis Prager Dr. Joel Sandberg hospitals -- and about general conditions and emerging Soviet policies Morey Schapira Lynn Singer affecting Jews, dissidents, and Prisoners of Conscience. Thus, we Sandra Spinner Marillyn Tallman were able to first report, for example, the trend now more generally Babelle Wampold understood whereby the Soviets are closing down the future emigration Leg;;/ Counsel S1uan Eizenstat apparatus under the pretext of national security quarantines. PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR John Rosenberg In the past, it has been our practice to summarize these reports in PAST PRESIDENTS a weekly report to the members of our board of directors. Now, Louis Rose~blum Harold L•ght :aec.1 we have concluded that the information, including appropriate analyses, S1 Fruml:in should be made available to a limited public audience. We are, therefore, Inez Weissman Stuart Wunman pleased to enclose a set of recent issues of our Refusenik Update. Irene Manekotsky Robert Gordon You will be receiving future issues on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Lynn Singer Morey Schapua RABBINIC ACTION Also enclosed, please find two policy statement releases having to COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS: do with the American Bar Association/ Association of Soviet Lawyers Rabbi I. David Oler Rabbi Marshall Berg arrangement, which the UCSJ vigorously opposes, and an important Rabbi Ira Koflnow analysis of our emigration policy in the context of the Helsinki follow-up ADVISORY BOARD meeting in Vienna and the Soviet proposal, which we also oppose, Cnairperson Morey Schapira to hold a human rights conference in Moscow. Finally, for your permanent Phil Blazer Honorable Wilham BrOdheaa reference, we include a copy of the transcript of our important Commission Rep. Sala Bunon Pro!. Alan DersMw1tz of Inquiry, including testimony by Natan Scharansky and Yuri Orlov. Pro!. Alan Dowty Father Rooert F. Dflnan Dr. Paul Flory I dee.) We appreciate your continuing interest in human rights and the plight Pro!. Manin Gilben Sister Ann G1 ;1en of Soviet Jews. Our national office in Washington exists to serve Dr.