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Syrian Airowities "Revealed by Teen
-General 'Clay
5,100Aniericans on Aliya
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not related . to his being . Jewish. cabled' Y 'the Syrian ambassador • in gladly:fly:hi S iii:provided it vies series' which has
During the 12 dayS he spent I Italy to: protest against the perse- allowed -.to- -assume-the'role - of`an:
More than 1,000,Olint left by ship
prison... Levy said.. he witnessed i cutions . of. Syrian Jews, including enquiry- oomMission".ott. -th&,:sitita-
tion'-of 'Syria's' Jews: - The ambas- during . the "summer. : Art" ndditibnal
. 'brutal flciggingi and • other degrad- reported •arrests of 12 Jews.
.ations of. prisoners. The soft-spok.
The Socialist Party has been undoc did net respond to thin oug- 4,100 went on aliya by -air. -Last
'leafs total aliya was 9,400.
en Levy. with hands cupped in fists most active an behalf of the Jew- gestion, de Pascalis said.
The 170 consisted of 49families
and 'his. voice rising, said that dur- ish community of Syria. The A letter of protest was sent last
ingilwir imprisonment, his brother Syrian ambassador received the week to the Syrian authorities <by and .31 individuals
.contrarted • typhoid fever and - he party's head of the foreign af- Socialist Senator Piero Caleirt.
himself isuffered an ear injury and fairs department. Luciano. de Pas- Another cable. ,protesting the ar-
displacement of• spinal discs as -a calis,. who expressed his concern rests of the 12 Jews reportedly
.result of beatings: He says . he is over the news arriving from Da- held incommunicado in a- Dames-
MI1SCUS:
still afflicted
cus jail was sent by Prof. Ricirtio
. . . by, . those
. 'ailments.'
After leaving the Syrian em- Bauer, president of the Italian
Levy 'said - that a n occasions,
when foreign dignitaries have bassy, de Pascalis reported that section of the Internathmil League
visited Syria; the government the ambassador had denied the in for Human Rights, jw- -Foreign
• has taken special precautions. to formation concerning the arrests Minister Aldo Moro. Yrof. Bauer
disguise the true situation. Jeivs and had invited the Italian So- requested Moro to intervene GM-
'..who try . •to escang; .from .. Syria cialist Party to send a delegation cially in order to insure the. Ma
and are captured, be said, ,face a to Damascus. De Piseitlis retort= eration "of - thin 'Jewish prisoners.
minimum sentence. of one year
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in prison. "The relatives and
sometimes even acquaintances
of escapees. or those, suspected
of trying to. - leave .the eountrY.
are interrogated and often held.
. in prison • for • indefinite periods
of time. •
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The youth stated that be knew .
personally la young Je ~ gr who; have
•. been kept. in Syrian .prisonsfor .:the;
last :three., months: on the Charge-
of attempting to leave the country.
Eleven range in age from 18 to
24 and the 12th, the son of one
couple imprisoned, is four years
old. Levy's
two brothers are, now
, . .
. in .
and • his. parents.. are
• dead. I Ai • he spoke, he. kept Ida
back turned to the news .cameras:
He was brought to the .U. • S.-:.from
Paris.
General Clay reiterated. his
earlier -appeals to the Syrian au-
thorities to release the Jews now
in prison, to end their -persecu-
tion of the Jewiali • minority and
to pertnit all those who wish to
leave to do so. He called on the
United States to help in this
cause.
In answer' to a reporter's ques-
tion, Clay stated that there is "ob-
viously no absolute check" on
Levy's claims, but he said Levy's
story has not changed in the balf
dozen times he has told* and in-..
dependent sources have verified
aspecti of it, including the list of
Representative of The
Lyric Coloratura
prisoners.
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Metropolitan _Opera Company
Italian Socialists Act
on Behalf of Syrian Jews
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New Hospital . Ward
for Chronically Ill
JERUSALEM --- The new ward
for chronically Ili aged at Shaare
Zedek 'Hospital here will provide
comprehensive medical and social
services for the sicked aged.
It marks a significant step for-
ward in JDC/Malben's over-all
•plan to help provide Israel with a
professionally organized national
system of care of long-term pa-
tients, Lodis Broido, Join Distribu-
tion Committee chairman, declared
at a ceremony marking the inau-
guration of the Jerusalem project.
JDC/Malben contributed 1/.500,-
000 ($120,000) toward the. cost of
the long-term ' ward at Shaare
Zedek Hospital, • Broido reported.
He also announced the beginning
of construction of a 60-bed ward
for the chronically at Tel Has- -
homer Hospital' in the Tel Aviv
area.
The Association for the• Plan-
ning and Development of Services
for the Aged, of which JDC/Mal-
ben is a major partner, will pro-
vide 1L1,200,000 ($288,000 ) to- 1
ward its cost.
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