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Article: American Jewish Congress is "deeply distressed" by a CBS "60 Minutes" segment that suggested that only a relatively small number of Soviet Jews are unhappy with life in the Soviet Union.
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- March 24, 1987
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NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Jewish Congress says it is "deeply distressed" by a CBS "60 Minutes" segment Sunday night (March 22) because it claims the program suggested that only a relatively small number of Soviet Jews are unhappy with life in the Soviet Union.
A statement by Theodore R. Mann, president of AJCongress, said the segment, featuring Mike Wallace, presented a "simplistic and inaccurate picture" of Soviet Jewish reality and was dedicated "to sweeping aside painful evidence of decades of anti-Jewish discrimination and oppression."
The statement asserted it has never been denied by American Jewish organizations that ...