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NEIGHBORHOOD ri3r 7H-3 (7 ra 3W rat l3f 3V LrLl VSstT I Aryeh his home. A Manhattan Supreme Court judge had ruled that prominent New York jeweler Harry Winston could attach the house because Aryeh had paid the ipuiplpr with a hum check for Svenstrup said that sometime between 2 am and 8 a.m. Wednesday, burglars jimmied the lock of a sliding glass door in the rear of the house. He said an alarm system was not set the night of the break-in because Aryeh had problems setting it. Aryeh has been in the news before.

Two years ago, a state Court of Appeals panel ruled that Aryeh had to settle a $183,000 gambling debt with a London casino that he had paid off with checks that eventually bounced. Earlier that year, another unpaid debt, nearly cost children. Among the items taken in the break-in were two Persian rugs valued at more than two Persian gold-enameled daggers valued at more than and a silver-enameled dagger valued at more than $10,000. Also taken, according to police, were two gold-enameled water pipes valued at more than $170,000 and several head pieces to a water pipe, called nargilas, valued at more than $100,000. Aryeh told police he is a collector of Persian artifacts.

Detective Sgt William By ROBERT GEARTY Burglars entered the Long Island Gold Coast baronial estate home of a high-rolling Iranian millionaire and escaped with Persian antiques valued at more than $1.5 million, Nassau police said yesterday. The burglary occurred in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday at the Kings Point home of Eskander Aryeh, according to police. Aryeh, 49, a retired building contractor, was asleep in the 31-room mansion at the time with his wife and five $1.8 million for four pairs of earrings set with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. Aryeh eventually made a financial settlement In 1977, a Las Vegas casino sued Aryeh and won after Aryeh ran up a $700,000 gambling debt that he had paid "with checks he stopped payment on as soon as he returned to New York. A X- Jobless hi! iS03 mmmms 3 I By MICHAEL HANRAHAN ST 'j4 ti Charge 2 in theft A married couple from upstate New York who had be friended an 86-year-old Long Island woman and lived with her for two years were charged with using the woman's credit -card and withdrawing money from her bank accounts, according to Suffolk County" police.

Officer Joseph Heather said Claude Casey, 23, and Melody Casey, 26, of Saranac Lake were charged with grand larceny in the third-degree and nine counts of forgery. Heather said that the alleged crimes occurred between January 1983 and July 1984, when the couple moved out of the woman's Nesconset home. Apparent suicide V. A 20-year-old Farmingdale man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa Wednesday night, police reported yesterday. Police identified the man as John Lanzo.

A detective said that Lanzo reportedly had been despondent, but didn't give a reason. The incident occurred in an emergency exit next to the multiplex movie theater on the second floor at 9:20 p.m. Carney on panel Rep. William Carney (R-Hauppauge) has been named to a seat.on the House Armed Services Committee. The assignment Is seen by Carney as a benefit to Long Island defense contractors, such as Grumman Corp.

and Fairchild. Aid for careers A series of conferences and workshops on careers is scheduled to begin next month oh the Patchogue campus of St. Joseph's College. Career Conference 1985, sponsored by the college's Office of Counseling and Testing, begins on Feb. 6 and will run through March 27.

The sessions will explore careers in such professions as health administration, education, mental health and civil service. Ed courses State University at Stony Brook's Center for Continuing Education will offer graduate courses at Patchogue-Medford Public Schools during the spring 1985 semester. -These extension courses are open to all college gradu- ates, whether or not they wish, to study for a graduate piiiiiiiiSiii I The unemployment rate on Long Island dropped to an all-time low last month for a rate of 4.3, according to the New York State Department of Labor. The rate had been well below 6 throughout the year, consistently better than in years past The all-time high unemployment since the department began measuring the bi-county region as a separate statistical area in 1974 was recorded at 11 in July 1976. The 4.3 bi-county rate for December was a marked improvement from the previous month, which was recorded at 4.9, according to Saul Finkel, a labor market analyst In December 1983, when there was high employment in the retail merchandising field, the rate was 5 unemployment Finkel said that the favorable 4 figure for last month was "due to a firmness in the manufacturing industry and growing strength in the finance and insurance fields." The total number of people from Long Island working last month was 1,381,100.

The number of people reported to be out of work and still looking for a job was 61,800. However, the number of people out of work last month was 9,000 people less than in November. "That is a marked improvement," Finkel said. The breakdown on unemployment in the counties established unemployment at 4.1 for Suffolk last month, compared with 4.7 in November and also in December of 1983. The Suffolk County rate, which is always higher than that recorded in Nassau, was at 4.5 last month, compared to 5.1 In November and 5.4 in December 1983.

mm RICHARD CORKERV DAILY NEWS She's a Wis Diana Ross views memorabilia at Kaufman Astoria studios In Queens, where she made movie The Wiz" in 1977 with, among others, Lena Home and Michael Jackson. George S. Kaufman (r.) formally named Studio 4, one of 25 buildings on the 13-acre lot, after Ross at a noontime. ceremony yesterday..