Priest Praises Israel for Treatment of Syrian POWs
NEW YORK—An Ameri-
can Catholic priest has re-
turned from a special mis-
sion to Israel with high
praise for its compassionate
treatment of Syrian prison-
ers captured in the Yam
Kippur War.
The Rev. Joseph Konrad,
pastor of St. Matthias Church,
Queens, said he "was favor-
ably impresed by the good
care and privileges Israel
gives the Syrian POWs;- the
type of care and privileges
apparently not received by
Israeli soldiers captured by
Syria."
Father Konrad visited Is-
rael as co-chairman of the
Catholic-J e wish Relations
Committee (CJRC) co-spon-
sored by the Catholic Diocese
of Brooklyn and the Anti-De-
famation League of Bnai
Brith.
Father Konrad interview-
ed the Syfian war prisoners
together with Rabbi Bruce
K. Cole, community consult-
ant of the ADL's New York
regional office and co-secre-
tary of the Catholic-Jewish
Relations Committee.
Father Konrad said that
they spoke to a sizeable
group of the 396 prisoners.
"They seemed to have diffi-
culty in understanding why
a U.S. Catholic priest and
rabbi had come to see them.
We had the feeling filat
they looked at us as official
emissaries of the U.S. gov-
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ernment because they kept
asking how soon would we
permit them to go home."
While the Syrian POWs
complained that their treat-
ment could be better, Father
Konrad said they lived in
large, clean dormitory fa-
cilities, had ample exercise
areas, received weekly mail
from their families in Syria
and were permitted to send
home weekly postcards.
According to Father Kon-
rad, the prisoners appeared
to be in excellent physical
condition, well-fed and well-
clothed. He said he saw a
modern dental clinic, a first-
aid clinic for medical treat-
ment and hospital care in
nearby cities available for
those prisoners needing it.
Besides the army food
rations allotted to each pris-
oner by Israel, they were
also permitted to accept do-
nations of food sent by the
five Arab mayors of nearby
Israeli towns.
"Our over-all objective,"
Father Konrad said, "was to
express in a dramatic way
the concern of the 3,000,000
Catholics and Jews in Brook-
lyn and Queens for the Is-
raeli prisoners of war in
Syrian hands."
This concern had been ex-
pressed in a CJRC statement
released before the priest
and rabbi left for Israel
which noted recorded mis-
treatment of captured Israelis
and called upon Syria to
abide by internationally rec-
ognized conventions for the
treatment of prisoners of
war and the repatriation of
the sick and seriously wound-
ed.
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4 Jewish Women Found Murdered in Damascus
PARIS (JTA) — Four Jew-
ish • women were •killed in
Damascus within the last
week. Their bodies were
found Friday in a street of
the Jewish quarter, it was
reported by the French daily,
Le Figaro, w h i c h cited a
"sure source" for this infor-
mation. According to t h e
daily, several dozen Jews
left their ghetto to participate
in a demonstration by Christ-
ian women Tuesday, March
5, to protest Syria 's anti-
Jewish discrimination. T h e
-protestors were reportedly
brutally dispersed by the po-
lice.
Le Figaro, in its Friday
Goldmann, Views Tito as Friend
In his announcement in Tel
Aviv recently that the World
Jewish Congress will estab-
lish a department to foster
good relatIons with the third
world, Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
WJC president, said:
"Tito (Marshal Josip B'roz
of Yugoslavia), is a genuine
friend of the state of Israel.
He only wants to save it from
the disastrous fate into which
its intransigent leaders are
taking it."
Dr. Goldmann, said time
was working against Israel,
and urged it to take advan-
tage of the detente between
the U.S. and USSR.
WJC's convention will be
held at The Hague the end
of May, with 500 representa-
tives of Jewish communities
from 62 countries expected
to attend. Among the dele-
gates will be emissaries from
t w o Communist countries,
Romania and Yugoslavia, but
not the Soviet Union. None
had been invited, Dr. Gold-
mann said, adding: "They
might have sent us Vergelis,
who would hardly be repre-
sentative of the Russ i_a n
Jews,"
The Hague meeting will in-
clude a discussion on rela-
tions between Jews and
Christians. A Catholic Card-
inal, African intellectuals,
President Seng-har of . Sene-
.
JWB Parley Studies
One-Parent Family
NEW YORK—The rapidly
g r owing phenomenon of
single-parent families and
the Jewish community's con-
cern with these families were
examined in a two-day group
consultation on the single-
parent family, sponsored by
the National Jewish Welfare
Board.
Reasons for this exploding
social phenomenon include
the rapidly increasing divorce
rate, the changing roles of
women, the mobility of the
American family and a much
longer period of widowhood
due to a greater life expec-
tancy for women, the JWB
reported.
Participants in the consul-
tation were assistant execu-
tive directors and program
directors of Jewish centers
and YM-YWHAs — persons
who have a direct responsi-
bility for program develop-
ment—and executive direc-
tors and key lay persons.
MARSHAL TITO
gal, are among those invited.
Dr. Goldmann said he was
gratified by the recent moves
Israel made towards peace.
He said: "The next five to
ten years offer the last chance
to achieve it. Afterwards, the
Arabs will be so strong they
will not want to talk."
Russia, Dr. Goldmann felt,
would soon "recognize" Is-
rael without renewing diplo-
matic relations. If the Gen-
eva talks develop satisfac-
torily, relations may follow."
It has been announced in
London that Israel Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan has
accepted an invitation to par-
ticipate in the WJC Hague
conferences.
edition, quoted diplomatic
sources saying that the slay-
ings were by extremists op-
posed to President Hafez As-
sad's Middle East policy, but
it was not known whether the
extremists were Palestinian
or local opponents of Assad.
Earlier, the French state
radio, France Inter, reported
that a number of Syrian
Christians, . mainly women,
had conducted such a dem-
onstration in the center of
Damascus and tried to march
through the streets. Accord-
ing to this report, they were
protesting a recent incident
involving a number of Syrian
Jewish women who report-
edly had been arrested and
maltreated and others - be-
lieved to have been killed.
It was not immediately clear
whether the four women
found Friday were those
killed earlier or whether
they were killed during the
demonstration March 5. The
French radio did not men-
tion any source of datelines
as to where its report orig-
inatr'd. Other sources in Paris
confirmed the veracity of the
report of the demonstration.
The murder of the four
women was brought to the
attention of UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim by
Israel's UN Ambassador
Yosef Tekoah. Tekoah em-
phasized the horrible nature
of the crime and asked the
secretary-general to intervene
immediately to prevent a re-
currance, the sources said.
Waldheim promised to act.
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Bar-Ilan U. Cuts
Holidays Due to War
RAMAT GAN — Holidays
have been reduced to a mini-
mum this year at Bar-Ilan
University, and semesters
have been arranged to fit in
with the special program
prepared for students being
freed from the army, it was
announced by Prof. Menahem
Zevi Kaddari, rector.
This is the first time that
the university has reduced
holidays so drastically and
it follows the late start of the
academic year due to the
Yom Kippur War callup.
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