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Senators Warn of Fragile Mid East Disengagement Omaha (JTA) — Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the Senate Republican Minority Leader, described the Israeli disengagement agreemenla with Syria and E^ypt as among "the great diplomatic triumphs in more than 2S years." SpcaUag at aa Israel Bands dlnaer la Omaka, telarday alghl. Scott praised KIssinger'i InhUllve as "a very important first step" '(•ward a lasting peace in the MUdIc East. He warned, however, that "monumental proMems Ue ahead due to latcaac hostility, geaeratloas •Id" aid that "farther agreements will aal kt reached easily." President Hafez Assad of Syria lold Americans that what he believes Syria has gained in its disengagement agr«enMnt with Israel is a
three-stage movement by "or any other foreign party." which Israel will surrender Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D:, all the Arab territory it oc- Wash.), appearing on the CBS cupied in the 1M7 Six-Day television program "Face the War. Nation" yesterday, warned Interviewed from that the "heavy . Soviet Damascus on the ABC presence in Syria" makes the television program "Isaues Syrian-Israeli disengagement and Answers," Assad said accord "very fragile." that disengagement "constitutes a step which should lead to the next stage and this stage in turn should lead to the full withdrawal of Israel ' from our occupied territories and to the restoration of the national rights o( the Arab people of Palestine." Asked if he had any JERUSALEM (JTA) - The assurances from Secretary of Israeli Cabinet has decided to State Henry A. Kissinger on make public a full dossier any agreement with the containing details of Syrian Israelis, liie Syrian President brutality and torture of replied that he could not say Israeli prisoners of war. "in the full sense of the word The accounts of torture that tliere are any such were related by the last of the guarantees" from the U.8. Israeli POWs who returned
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Returning POW's Describe Torture, Treatment in Syria from Syria. Yaariv said the want to "upeet my parents." debriefings have made it He told reporters however clear that the torture was that "the first months were systematic and premeditated very diffictilt." He said that rather than haphazard, oc- for a month and a half he had casional acts by Syrian been blindfolded and injailors and interrogators — ' terrogated endlessly by the although sadism did ap- Syrians In Hebrew and parently play a part in It. It English. "They used to torappeared from the accounts ture me to extract inthat the Syrians reserved formation but also for the their worst torture methods pleasure of It," Capt. Rokah for downed Air Force men. said. He said that he and' other An Israeli Army spokesman denied categorically pikHs were beaten on their allegations by returned ears to make them physically Syrian POWs that they had unable to fly again. Other been mistreated In Israeli returned POWs spoke of long periods of solitary conprisons. Capi. Ami Rokab, a downed finement, the application of Mirage pilot, said be didn't elewit shock, the use of high intensity lamps to blind the prisoners or to bum sensitive parts of their bodies and beatings with sticks. One returned pilot, an TEL AVIV (EINS) amputee, said he bad bailed Interviewed over Israel out of his plane safely and radio, Dr. B. Kshifov, chairman of Tel - Aviv's Medical Society, warned against the possible outbreak of a tuberculosis epidemic. The doctor explained that tuberculosis is rife among the Arabs living in the administered areas and working Omaha — Invitations have in Israel. They carry the been sent to the entire Jewish infection, as do many of the community of Omaha, Linnew arrivals from the Soviet coln, Des Moines and outlying Union where tubercuioels Is areas to attend the second far more prevalent than annual open house to be held amongst the settled at the Dr. Philip Sher Home population in Israel. for the Aged, Sunday, June 23 The disease is particularly from 2-4 p.m. stubborn and difficult to root Home reshleats, directed out, with younger age groups by Mary Wine, wUl bake aU more vulnerable than others. refreshments served at the Dr. Kshifov argued that stringent measures to control the affliction must be taken immediately In order to prevent the disease from reaching epidemic proporNEW YORK, (JTA) tions. Valery Panov, the Jewish ballet dancer, and his nonScroll for Henry Jewish dancer wife, Galina, WASHINGTON, (JTA) - have finally been given Secretary of State Henry permission to leave the Sovie.t Kissinger has received a Union for Israel, the National scroll for his "great con- Conference on Soviet Jewry tribution" toward bringing reported on June 7. about the release of 89 Israeli Panov and his wife were prisoners held by Syria since dismissed from the Kirov hostilities began on Yom ballet when Ihey applied for Kippur. permission to leave. Later, The scroll was presented by after worldwide protest, Dov Zachln, a member of the Soviet authorities said Panov Knesset who represented a could leave but he would have committee of parents of to leave his wife behind. Both Uraeli POWs in Syria. rejected the offer.
T.B. Epidemic Warning Sounded
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) Two suspected terrorists were caught at a roadbloack on the Maalot-Sasa road in Central Galilee last week. They were riding in an Israellicensed taxi and said they were on their way to a Druze village near Safad. They admitted to poike later that they were on an unspecified miuion to cause casualties in Israel and bad Infiltrated from Lebanon with three companions. The latter are believed to have returned to Lebanon. The suspects were idenUfied as Mahmud RashM Hadi and JamU Musufah Dihab, both 18, from the Israeli Arab vlUage of Maidal Krom in western Galilee. According to police, the two
went to Lebanon several years ago to join El Fatah. The taxi diiver who had pkted them up near the Lebanese border told police he had no Idea his passengers were infiltrators.
$1MmonlUdaed In Paris Alt Sale PARIS (JTA) - A toUl of tl million was raised for Israel here as paintings, art objects and antiques were auctioned off for the benefit of the Jewish state at the plush Georges V Hotel in downtown Paris. All the works donated to the auction were offered by collectors, private partlea or the artists Ihemselvce.
H«ackars Tried In Netherlands AMSTERDAM, (JTA) - A Haarlem district court on June 6 sentenced two Palestinian hijacker* to five years imprisonment for hijacking, arson and illegal possesaion of arms. fhe two men, Adnan Ahmed Musa Nuri, 33, and Sami Husayn Tamimah, 21, hijacked a British Airways plane last March and destroyed It by fire after a forced landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The hijackers evacuated the passengers and crew members unharmed before burning the aircraft. The Dutch government has let it be known that It would prefer the two to serve out their sentences in a country other than The Netherlands.
was in good condition when the Syrians captured him. But the toriure he suffered under interrogation caused severe wounds in his lower leg which had to be amputated, he said. The accounts of torture by returned loldlen and air mea were borne out by three Israeli Bedouin civiUani the Syrians captured when they atUcked Israel last Oct. I. They said they were tortured bmtally, starved and eoastanily questioned. They said a fourth Bedouin captive,, an elderly man, had died from the mistreatment and lack of medical attentlan. Israeli sources noted today that as bad aa their areetment was, the returned Israeli prisoners were in much better condition than other Israelis who had fallen into Syrian hands In past years and returned completely broken in body and mind.
Sher Home to Host Annual Open House
Panov and Wife To Go To Israel
open bouse. LOVE (League Offering Volunteers for the Elderly) members as well as residents will act ss hosts and hostesses and assist with other arrangements. Mrs. Sol Parsow and Mrs. Jack B. Cohen are LOVE cochairmen. All who come are ivged to bring members of their families of all ages. The purpose of the open house is to belter acquaint everyone with the Dr. Sher Home and the important services it provides for our community.
Summer at The Center Omaha — Registration opens Sunday for Jewish Community center summer programs. A brochure describing all the planned courses has been mailed to Onter Members. Registration for these programs is limited to Center members, and membership application are available at the JCC.