The World - News from March 28, 1986

American Jewish leaders, frustrated because fewer Jews are being allowed to leave the Soviet Union, began a campaign of protests to accelerate efforts to free them. “The patterns of oppression are deepening” in the Soviet Union, despite the recent release of human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky, said Rabbi Alexander M. Shapiro of South Orange, N.J., president of the Rabbinical Assembly. Shapiro spoke at a Washington news conference where he was joined by leaders of five other national Jewish congregational and rabbinic institutions. Later, some of the group were arrested for demonstrating within 500 feet of the Soviet Embassy.