Arrests, Ext&tion Against Syrian Jews Reported on the Rise
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
tourist who visited Damascus
several days ago reported
here Tuesday that three
Jews were arrested there re-
cently and that the persecu-
tion, harassment„an‘extori;. ,,
tion of Damascas Jews has
intensified.
The tourist identified the
arrested Jews, all heads of
families, as Avraham Shou,
Joseph Shevut and Nissim
Kafif.
He said they were arrest-
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Suspected that several young
members of their families
have fled Syria. He said that
the Jews, who are confined
to a single quarter of Da-
mascus, are forced to form
on the street for roll-calls at
least once a week to ascer-
tain whether any members
of their families are missing.
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calls were accompanied by
beatings and mistreatment
of women and children.
He said that Jewish shops
in Damascus are on the lists
of Arab terrorist organiza-
tions. They are frequently
visited by terrorists who
force the shop owners to
contribute part of their in-
come for terrorist activities.
If the cash on hand is not
sufficient, the terrorists visit
the owners' homes to de-
mand a supplement, the
tourist reported.
He said Jewish religious
life in Damascus was limited
to occasional evenings when
synagogues were open. He
said Jewish families stayed
in their homes most of the
time for fear of reprisals for
the flight of young Jews from
Syria.
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Barbiturates, Alcohol Allegedly
Found in Blood of Libyan Pilot
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli
toxicologists were divided
over the interpretation of an
unofficial report purported
to be a laboratory analysis
of the blood content of the
French pilot of the Libyan
airliner shot down by Israeli
fighter planes over Sinai
Feb. 21.
According to the report,
traces of barbiturates and al-
cohol were found in the dead
pilot's blood.
The report, prepared by
the Forensic Medicine Insti-
tute laboratory, was sent to
France along with other in-
formation asked by a French
committee that visited Israel
Israel Pledged
Japanese Aid
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Three
hundred visiting members of
Japan's pro-Israel Makoya
sect swore to "come as one
to the aid of the Israel na-
tion" should Israel ever be
attacked by a foreign ag-
gressor.
"We are blood brothers
with them" (the Israelis), de-
clared the members of the
sect who arrived here for a
10-day visit to demonstrate
their solidarity With Israel on
its 25th anniversary.
The group is headed by
Prof. Ikori Tashima. Many
of them speak Hebrew. They
expressed profound regret
over the Lod Airport mas-
sacre of May 30, perpetrated
by three Japanese gunmen
in the service of Arab ter-
rorists.
One of the group, a mem-
ber of Japan's parliament,
asked to see the sole sur-
viving terrorist, Kozo Oka-
moto, who is serving a life
sentence in an Israeli prison.
He said he wanted to con-
vince Okamoto to express re-
gret for his deed.
Rabbi Doubts Data
on Student Worship
last month to investigate the
crash.
Israeli authorities said that
no official evaluation has
been made and cautioned
that all interpretations of the
report must be regarded with
the utmost reservations.
Toxicologists were arguing
over whether the pilot's
blood content could have in-
fluenced his reported erratic
actions during a 15-minute
period when, lost in Israeli
air space, he ignored signals
from Israeli fighter planes to
land.
According to the reported
lab analysis, the pilot's blood
contained 0.5 per cent of lu-
minal, a barbiturate, and
traces of alcohol. Dr. George
Tajar, of the Forensic Medi-
cine Institute, said the bar-
biturates were a cumulative
compound and the time of
their intake could not be de-
termined. He said the alcohol
content was, in his judgment,
not above normal.
Other experts, including
airline medical personnel,
said that the consumption of
barbiturates and alcohol has
a serious effect on the clarity
of thinking.
They said' pilots are for-
bidden to consume drugs of
any sort within 24 hours of
flight time and may not drink
any alcoholic beverage later
than 12 hours before take-off.
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Analysts Suggest
Why Qaddafi
Didn't Retaliate
UNITED NATIONS
(ZINS) — Political analysts
are asking why Libya's
strongman Muammar Qad-
dafi chose not to take any
military reprisals against
Israel for its tragic downing
of the Libyan airliner.
They attribute' Qaddafi's
inaction to the less-than ideal
relations prevailing between
the Libyan regime and a
large part of the Arab world.
The Lebanese press reports
that Qaddafi is charged with
trying to organize bloody
revolutions in Iraq and Syria.
Syrian President Hafez el-
Assad has openly accused
Qaddafi of trying to subvert
and undermine his regime.
Other Lebanese press re-
ports speak of serious con-
flicts between Qaddafi and
Egypt's President Anwar
Sadat, who protested Libya's
"interference" in the internal
affairs of other Arab states.
Both Saudi Arabia and the
Sudan have accused Qaddafi
of financing those kidnaped
and assassinated the three
diplomats in Khartoum.
The Libyan dictator, say
the experts, was therefore in
no position to take any re-
prisal action against Israel,
realizing he would have little
or no support from other
Arab countries. On the con-
trary, his enemies might
have enjoyed seeing Libya
bested in an encounter with
Israel. According to the an-
alysts, so far as Libya and
Qaddafi are concerned, Is-
rael has a few "silent part-
ners" from the Arab world on
her side.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
A poll of 798 freshmen at
Maryland's College Park
campus showed 29 per cent
of the Jewish students attend
synagogue services weekly,
a finding which evoked a
skeptical reaction from the
College Park Hillel director.
The poll indicated that 44
per cent of Protestant stu-
dents and 70 per cent of
Catholic students attended
church services weekly and
that 52 per cent of the Jew-
ish students polled said they
attended services no more
than three times a year.
"Twenty-nine per cent is
a very high figure, compared
with any other recognized
poll in the United States of
Jewish students at a non-
sectarian university," said
Rabbi Meyer Greenberg.
The poll was conducted by
the university's counseling
center.
The poll found that 72 per
cent of all students said they
would marry out of their
faith while only 10 per cent
said they would marry only
one of their own faith.
No breakdown by religious NYU Official Dr. Levy
affiliation was given in the
NEW YORK—Dr. Bertram
poll results on readiness to R. Levy, director of the
intermarry.
budget at New York Univer-
sity and a former assistant
A government of our own dean of the graduate school
is our natural right.--Thomas of arts and sciences, died
Tuesday at age 40.
Paine.