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WINDEME-RE IS LOCATED TARNIINGTON ROAD MAPLE AND 14 MILE ROAD ointm ent. BETWEEN all 661-1100 for an app Drop in or c 46 FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1987 (Editor's note: Veteran Jour- nalist Victor Bienstock died suddenly on August 29. This column was written three days earlier. VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK A merican Jews should display more than passing interest in the case of Charles Glass, the American journalist who was reported kidnapped in Beirut last May and turned up in Ju- ly in Damascus to describe how he had escaped from his Shiite captors. Glass, a former correspondent in Lebanon for the ABC network, had, accor- ding to his story, returned to Beirut to gather material for a book and was taken prisoner when he crossed the Green Line into Moslem-held Beirut with the son of the Lebanese Minister of Defense and the latter's driver. Glass has been described as a "passionate partisan" of the Arab cause. Some of his pro- fessional colleagues have ex- pressed doubts about aspects of his description of his cap- ture, two months of incarcera- tion and escape. They have openly suggested that his jailers had deliberately per- mitted him to slip past them. , His friends have replied with strong denounciations of Dan Rather, the CBS anchorman, and others who have openly stated their belief that the Glass caper was not exactly as the newsman had describ- ed it in numerous TV and press interviews. The Syrian authorities claim that it was their in- tervention that resulted in in- structions to Glass's jailers from high Iranian sources to permit his "escape." Official Washington tends to believe that the Syrians might have stage-managed the newsman's liberation as they may have done last year in the case of Jeremy Levin, the Cable News Network cor- respondent. Levin either eluded his jailers after a year in captivity or was deliberate- ly permitted by them to break out of his prison. The London daily, Indepen- dent, argued that "the in- creasing weight of evidence that his (Glass's) dramatic escape was actually a careful- ly contrived way of allowing him to go, without his kidnap- pers appearing to give in to pressure is a demonstration that quiet diplomacy works." It said "the Syrians astutely used the seizure of Mr. Glass to pursue their two political aims: to avoid confrontation with Iran in Lebanon and to get back on reasonable terms with the West." Other press reports quoted Washington sources for the information that Syria had been negotiating with Teheran to secure Glass's release. Regardless of how Glass recovered his liberty, Washington has been quick to express its gratitude for Syria's efforts in the case. William M. Eagleton Jr., the American ambassador who was withdrawn from Damas- cus last year after the Syrian Government was shown to be directly involved in the at- tempt to destroy an El Al, Some of Glass' colleagues doubted his story about his capture. airliner at London's Heathrow Airport, is being returned to his post — another step, according to The London Times, towards Syria's rehabilitation in the West. The Glass affair has provid- ed another chance to show President Hafez al-Assad that the Reagan Administration is almost desperately eager to establish close ties with his regime. Ambassador Vernon Walters, the chief U.S. representative at the United Nations, who visited Assad recently in a move to better relations, telephoned his thanks to the Syrian dictator for his assistance in securing the release of the correspon- dent. Secretary of State George Shultz has written to Assad along similar lines. What makes the Glass af- fair of special concern to American Jews is that Glass, according to The New Republic, "was not an unbias- ed or objective reporter. Glass was a passionate partisan of what he thought to be the Arab cause, allocating his ar- dors among warring factions he wished were one. There were not only the dexterous- ly skewed dispatches on television," the journal reported, "but also somewhat out of American view, more obviously anti-Jewish screeds in the Spectator of London. "In ABC anchorman Peter Jennings's report the night of the kidnapping, he noted Glass's concern for what he euphemistically called the .