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Group Apartments for the Elderly A Jewish Family Service Program METRO. A.T. Interiors by Ruth Schwartz A.S.I.D.-I.F.D.A. o vija:1643 410 0 DOOR TO DOOR CADILLACS & TOWN CARS MASTERCARD/VISA/AMERICAN EXPRESS THE LOWEST FARES IN TOWN... FOR LUXURY SEDANS! (PER PERSON RATES) VAN AVAILABLE WHEN NEEDED. 7 DAYS A WEEK - 24 HOURS A DAY! For Reservations Call 1-800-365-5467 66 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1991 "design ideas to suit your lifestyle" • FURNISHING • CONSULTATION . • FINE ART 30 years experience Please call 352-2264 Paris (JTA) — French Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld was taken into custody in Damascus and placed under house arrest in her hotel room. Mrs. Klarsfeld, who with her husband, Serge, helped bring Klaus Barbie and other Nazi war criminals to justice, was seized by Damascus police outside the Interior Ministry. She was demonstrating there against the continued haven Syria has given Alois Brunner, one of the last of the major Nazi war criminals still at large. The German-born Klarsfeld was also pro- testing Syria's denial of civil rights to its Jewish commun- ity, which is prevented from emigrating. A ranking Interior Min- istry official reportedly promised that he was "trying to get her a meeting with an important Syrian personality," to whom she could express her concern over Mr. Brunner and the treatment of Syrian Jews. Mrs. Klarsfeld entered Syria with admittedly ques- tionable documents. Her husband has been able to speak to her by telephone from Paris. The Syrians are reportedly trying quietly to rid them- selves of Mr. Brunner, who is alleged to have lived in Damascus for more than 30 years. He occupied a villa on George Haddad Street under the name of Georg Fisher. But on Oct. 15, he was re- ported to have disappeared. The Syrian authorities are said to be trying to ease him out of the country in stages, by taking him first to a less visible location. They are said to have already produc- ed a sheaf of forged docu- ments to prove that Mr. Brunner, alias Fisher, never lived at the villa. Mr. Brunner, 79, was sentenced to death in -absen- tia by a French court in 1954 for premeditated murders and torture. As an SS officer, he commanded the Drancy internment center near Nazi- occupied Paris, where Jews and others were kept temporarily before deporta- tion to death camps in East- ern Europe. He also was responsible for deporting the entire Jewish community of Salonika, Greece, few members of which survived. Mr. Brunner continued depor- ting Jews from France even after the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944. Like many other major war criminals, he managed to evade punishment after the collapse of the Third Reich a year later and found not only refuge but welcome in Syria. The Damascus govern- ment has persisted, however, in denying his presence, and repeated French requests for extradi- tion have gone unheeded. But that could change if Syria becomes convinced that it would improve its world standing by coop- erating in the Brunner case. The Middle East peace talks have put Syria's support of terrorism, its dismal human rights record and its treat- ment of Jews under interna- tional spotlight. In an apparent indication that it is sensitive to the "bad press" it is receiving on these issues, the Damascus government last month released more than 700 peo- ple from Syrian prisons. Among those released were four of the six Jews behind bars for allegedly attemp- ting to leave the country. Anti-Semitism Is Synod Topic Rome (JTA) — Th e assembled Catholic bishops of Europe heard a ringing condemnation of the persecution of Jews by Christians at the opening of a special two-week synod convened at the Vatican on Nov. 28. The speaker, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, denounced anti-Semitism of which, he said, the Holocaust was the "terrible apex," a "gigantic crime" that contained the "perversion of European humanism" and the "denial of the brotherhood of man." Cardinal Ruini, a key offi- cial at the synod, extolled Jewish culture as "a consti- tuent element in the devel- opment of European civiliza- tion." It was not known whether Cardinal Ruini's remarks were written before or after the European Jewish Con- gress asked the synod to "respect and affirm the prin- ciple of religious and cultural pluralism that without a doubt constitutes a fundamental principle of modern Europe." The EJC made its request in a letter delivered a week