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Israel did not request any U.S.
action on this issue.)
T h e International R e d
Cross has officially agreed to
Israel's request to investigate
the condition of Israeli pris-
oners held in Syrian jails, it
was announced here.
The notification from the in-
ternational organization said
that the Red Cross will ask the
Syrian authorities to permit its
representatives to visit the
prisoners and the Syrian reply
will be communicated to Israel
as soon as possible.
Foreign Minister Golda Meir
informed the Cabinet that Israel
had submitted to the Red Cross
the names of 11 prisoners
known to be in Syria and also
requested Gen. Odd Bull, chief
of staff of the United Nations
Truce Supervision Organization,
to use his office to secure the
early release of the prisoners.
Gen. Bull was also asked to ar-
range that the Israeli prisoners
be visited by UN observers and
Red Cross representatives pend-
ing their release. She said a
copy of this request had been
sent to UN Secretary-General
U Thant in New York.
The Israel Ministry of Health
is planning to invite interna-
tional medical experts to exam-
ine the 11 Israelis released by
Syria in a prisoner exchange 10
days ago. The Red Cross has
already rejected an Israeli re-
quest that its medical person-
nel - examine the released Is-
raelis.
Brazil Hopes to Repatriate 800 From Soviet Union
Syria Charges
Israel Holds
48 Prisoners
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA)—
Hopes for the repatriation of
800 Brazilian nationals now in
the Soviet Union, most of them
Jews, were expressed in the
House of Representatives at
Brasilia by the Foreign Min-
istry.
The Ministry informed par-
liament that negotiations for
the return of the 800 are being
continued with Soviet authori-
ties, and that beds, food and
other facilities have been pro-
vided in the Brazilian Embassy
in Moscow to accommodate
those former Brazilians who
want to return home.
Most of the 800, the Ministry
stated, are Brazilians who had
been born in Ukrainia, Bessa-
rabia or Bukovina, lived here
LONDON (JTA) —The Syrian
government, reacting to Israeli
complaints that returned pris-
oners had been subjected to
inhuman treatment in Syrian
prisons, said Syrians were still
being held in Israeli prisons and
receiving "the worst possible
treatment and torture," it was
reported from Damascus.
A Syrian Defense Ministry
spokesman said that, despite the
recent exchange, "many other
Syrians remain in Israeli pris-
ons." He said the prisoners had
been taken in the 1948 Israel-
Arab war. He did not give any
figures. The spokesman said the
Syrian government had repeat-
edly sought the intervention of
Israel Supersol's president,
the United Nations Truce Sup-
ervision Organization to free the Bert Loeb, announced 1964
captives, but that Israel "would plans to add three super-
not even allow UN observers markets in Beersheba, Ramat
into Israeli prisons where the Gan and Jaffa to the Com-
pany's seven.
Syrians are being held."
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,nationals who had gone to the
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Jewish Congress
Seeks Witnesses
to Crimea Crimes
The World Jewish Congress
in New York is seeking wit-
nesses against Nazis responsible
for the massacre of thousands
of Jews in the Crimea during
1941 and 1942. Among the vic-
tims was a community of Cau-
casion Mountain Jews known as
Tati which, in the pre-World-
War-II period, had been re-
settled in the Crimea with the
help of the American Jewish
Joint Agricultural Corporation
(Agro-Joint).
The Nazi massacres occurred
mainly in Feodosia in Novem-
ber or December of 1941, and
in March, 1942, in the district
of Eupatoria. Other murders
took place in the village of Ikor,
the collective village of Schau-
mian, about two to three miles
from the town of Porfiriewka,
and in the village of Kuruluko-
nogos, near Eupatoria.
The Tati got their name be-
cause they spoke Judeo-Tati,
an Iranian dialect modified by
Semitic and Turkish influences.
In 1926, the mountain Jews
numbered 25,866. A number of
them was resettled in the Cri-
mea in agricultural colonies in
the process of restratification of
Soviet Jewry between the two
world wars.
Anyone who witnessed the
killings of the Tati and other
Crimean Jews, or can offer any
pertinent information, is re-
quested to get in touch with
Dr. Nehemia Robinson, director,
Institute of Jewish Affairs,
World Jewish Congress, 15 E.
84th St., New York 28, N. Y.
PEC Reports Higher Earnings,
Declares 5% Stock Dividend
Directors of PEC Israel Eco-
nomic Corporation, New York,
declared a 5% stock dividend
for the year 1963, payable Feb.
28, to stockholders of record as
of Jan. 2. A similar dividend was
paid for 1962. PEC had 733,774
shares of $25 par value common
stock outstanding on December
1, 1963, held by about 12,000
stockholders t h r o u g h out the
United States.
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Tensions Mount
in Middle East