Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Syria, Egypt and Libya rank near Iraq in the severity of their treatment of the Jews. For the estimated 5,000 who still remain in Syria, lightning house searches and capricious arrests are commonplace. Jews are confined generally to ghettos, and all must carry identification cards stamped "Jew" in red ink. Jobs and passports are heavily restricted: on the rare occasions that a Jew is permitted to leave the country, he must leave a $5,000 deposit refundable upon his return. For many, it is a small enough price to pay for the opportunity to depart...
...serve as convenient scapegoats; henceforth, they may also serve as hostages in dealings with Israel. Egypt, Syria and Iraq have refused all appeals to free their captive Jews, perhaps fearing that a sudden release might be interpreted as a capitulation to Israel or, minimally, as an admission of ill-treatment. There is talk of trying to buy the Jews out of captivity, similar to the effort undertaken in 1943 when Nazi Germany's concentration camps held millions of Jews, but no formal campaign is as yet under way. Ironically, nothing might so readily improve the position of the Jews...
Spain's traditionally conservative bishops last fall unanimously signed a pastoral letter calling on the government to abandon delays in enacting a mild labor-reform bill, and younger priests began pressing for social reforms. In January, Madrid's bar association passed by acclamation a resolution demanding better treatment for political prisoners. News papers and magazines, given comparatively comprehensive freedoms by the press law of 1966, had become more and more candid in their appraisals of the regime. Labor unrest continued to grow...
...some respects, the twelve men confined to a New Orleans hotel last week can expect no better treatment than Army recruits. For weeks they will live barrack-style, four to a room, at the Rountowner Motor Inn. A deputy sheriff will guard them even when they sleep. Only in emergencies will they be allowed to talk by phone with their wives-and then only after a sheriff contacts Judge Edward Haggerty for his permission. For their trouble, the jurors, who will eventually decide whether Businessman Clay Shaw conspired to kill President John F. Kennedy, will not be paid a cent...
...since the U.S. is not at war with North Korea; instead, they are "illegal detainees." Paul Warnke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, finds it "unthinkable that these men will be court-martialed for signing a false statement. All the confession shows is the bestiality of the treatment they received. The harm done to the national interest is next...