Moscow Expels Scheuer; Cites ‘Improper Activities’
Soviet Govt orders expulsion of Repr Scheuer, accusing him of 'improper activities'; expulsion, believed to be 1st involving elected Amer official, follows brief detention of Scheuer by Moscow police while he was visiting Jewish family that had been refused emigration to Israel; Scheuer, in phone int from Leningrad, says he understood he was being expelled for 'encouraging Soviet citizens to emigrate'; notes that Soviet Jews he contacted had made up their minds long ago that they wanted to emigrate; says that as Jewish Congressman from heavily Jewish dist, he wanted to inform himself about controversial issue of Jews in USSR; US Embassy, in announcing the Soviet action, declines to speculate on its long-range effects; US spokesman says that US official T R Buchanan was summoned to office of Soviet Foreign Min where G M Korniyenko, chief of US sec, asserted that Scheuer had distributed documents which Korniyenko indicated represented material harmful to USSR; Buchanan was not given opportunity to examine the papers; calls expulsion 'grave step, not helpful to relations'