The World - News from Aug. 12, 1985
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said he has written to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and will write to President Reagan asking that the issue of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union be on the agenda of the scheduled U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in November. Speaking at the World Union of Jewish Students in Jerusalem, Peres said the Soviets have shown “a renewed interest” in the Middle East because they feel “pushed aside” by the United States in its peacemaking role.
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