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All top quality ski equipment Oak Park 24695 Coolidge At 10 Mile Road 547-9669 M-S 9-6 Syrian Jewish Plight Is Topic At U.N. United Nations (JTA) — Israel brought the plight of Syrian Jewry to the atten- tion of the United Nations this week, making the issue the exclusive topic of its 15- minute presentation Tues- day to the General Assembly's Social, Human- itarian and Cultural Corn- mittee. "The situation of Syrian Jewry has not improved at all," despite repeated prom- ises made by the Syrian regime and entreaties made by American and European officials, Israeli represent- ative Ilan Mor told the panel. Mr. Mor said the estimated 4,500 Jews remaining in Syria are subject to "continuous surveillance, intimidation and harassment" from the Syrian secret police. "Every time there is a knock on the door, mothers and fathers shake with fear for their children," he told the committee, which in- cludes representatives from all U.N. member nations. The Jews of Syria have been under tight travel re- strictions since the forma- tion of the modern Syrian state in 1947. They are the only Jewish community in the Arab world that has never been allowed to emigrate and settle in Israel. Mr. Mor testified that six Jews are presently in prison for attempting to leave Syria: Eli and Salim Swed, brothers who were arrested after Eli visited Italy and who recently staged an un- precedented hunger strike in prison; Rahmun Darwish and Joseph Raful Sabato, charged with trying to flee Syria and detained without trial since September 1990; and Subhi and Sa'id Castica, two brothers arrested, along with their wives and two in- fants, and imprisoned without trial for attempting to escape the country. While Mr. Mor's presenta- tion will not lead to any General Assembly resolu- tion, the speech places the issue on the desks of foreign ministries around the world, which will receive copies of the testimony from their U.N. missions. The human rights moni- toring organization Amnes- ty International has already requested a copy of Mr. Mor's speech, according to an Israeli diplomat. When the Syrian repre- sentative, Bachar Jaafari, was given an opportunity to reply to Mr. Mor's charges, he countered by alleging Israeli human rights abuses against both Arabs and Jews from Arab lands. He even cited Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's move to shut Foreign Minister David Levy out of the Madrid peace conference as an example of anti-Sephardic bias. And just as Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa did in Madrid, Mr. Jaafari maintained that Jews enjoy full equality in Syria. Those in prison were jailed for con- tacts with Israel, he claimed. But unlike in past years, the speeches preceding and following Mr. Mor's did not bring up Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Instead, Portugal de- nounced the slaughter in East Timor, Pakistan pro- tested Indian brutalities in Kashmir, and Greece called attention to the "illegal oc- cupation" and "transfer of residents" taking place in Cyprus. Israel's representative to the U.N. committee, Asher Naim, said the fact that these speeches did not men- tion the Palestinians is the latest example of the "normalization" of Israel's position in the world body. Issue Delays Conference New York (JTA) — A major conference sponsored by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was postponed indefinitely, after the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization refused to yield to American opposition to its participation. The conference, which had been scheduled to open in Budapest, is considered the "parliament" of the Red Cross movement. While the United States has consistently opposed PLO participation in world bodies, even as only an observer, the Red Cross is considered particularly sen- sitive because of its respon- sibility for implementing the 1949 Geneva Conventions. In its announcement, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent explicitly blamed the postponement on the question of Palestinian participation. The United States had said it would not participate unless the PLO withdrew its request for observer status.