Rep. Holtzman Accuses INS of Failing to Act on War Criminals

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D., N.Y.) declared Tuesday that the reply from the Immigration and Naturalization
Service to her charges "confirms" her analysis that the INS has "failed to conduct a thorough, result-oriented investigation" of alleged Nazi war
criminals living in the United States.

"It appears", she asserted in a letter to INS Commissioner Leonard Chapman, "that whatever additional action INS has taken was not the
result of a more vigorous and systematic investigation but was solely in reaction in my initial inquiries or in response to them."
She reiterated her demands for a full and competent investigation of the alleged criminals.

Mrs. Holtzman had alleged that 60 reported war criminals are in the U. S. with little or no federal effort to apprehend them. INS, she said,
had allowed 73 of them to take refuge in this country following World War II and of that number 13' had died. They were charged with the
killings of tens of thousands, most of them Jews. One of those accused is Bishop Valerian Trifa, whose Romanian Orthodox Episcopate headquar-
ters is near Jackson, Mich.

Elizabeth Holtzman

Chapman replied that her allegations were based on a "misunderstanding" of his agency's authority "without foundation." However, Chap-
man acknowledged that INS is investigating 37 persons "who comprise our current Nazi war criminals list." In his reply, Chapman cited a U. S.-
Supreme Court decision which he said supported the view that "there is no authority to deport an alien solely because his activities are consid-
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Formalities, Security Await
Nixon's Israel Visit Sunday

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli and American officials
are working feverishly on the most elaborate preparations
in the nation's history for the 25-hour visit of President
Nixon on Sunday. More than a dozen U. S. government
transport planes landed here, bringing tons of communica-
tions equipment, bullet-proof cars and other paraphernalia
for the President's visit.
A team of 50 American technicians installed telephone
hook-ups at the King David Hotel where the Nixon entour-
age will occupy three entire floors. Local news media are
making much of the fact that the famed "hot line" to
Moscow and the awesome telephone by which the Presi-
dent can order a nuclear war will be located in Israel's
capital for the one day.
The most intensive pteparations are going on at Ben-
Gurion Airport, which will be converted into a private air-
port for the Nixon party hours before and after the sched-

uled arrival Sunday and departure on Monday. American
and Israeli personnel are directing the air traffic planning
operation that will bar all commercial flights from Israel's
international air terminal during the crucial hours. Regu-
lar, border and secret police, CIA and U. S. Secret,Service
men are patrolling every inch of the airport and the route
Mr. Nixon's motorcade will follow to Jerusalem. -

Mr. Nixon is to be greeted by flag-waving schoolchil-
dren at the entrance to Jerusalem. He will be given a state
dinner by President Ephraim Katzir Sunday night in the
Chagall Hall of the Knesset. It will be attended by 350
Israeli guests. The 136 newsmen accompanying the Presi-
dent's party and Israeli journalists will be allowed to
watch over closed circuit television in an adjoining room.
.Political preparations are also under way. The cabinet
is scheduled to meet to review the practical and political
aspects of the Nixon visit. It is expected that while in

Israel Mr. Nixon will formalize long-term U. S. economic
and military aid for Israel.
The commander of the Southern Region, Haim Tavori,
said Israelis were—being encouraged to come and welcome
the President when he arrives in Jerusalem, but he added
that the President would come "in a caravan of a certain
length through roads that have already been chosen."
A direct telephone line will connect the King David
Hotel with the White House.
Mr. Nixon will be received at the airport by President
Katzir, Premier Rabin, Foreign Minister Yigal - Allon,
Ambassador Simha Dinitz and their wives.
Mrs. Nixon will have a special schedule of her own.
The White House had no objection to her touring the
Old City of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is covered with American flags.
Police refused "for security reasons" three requests
for demonstrations during the Nixon visit.

First Stage of Israeli Forces' Withdrawal
From Syrian Territory to Be Completed Today

Trial of Syrian Torturers Demanded
as Returning POWs Report Cruelties

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel will complete its withdrawal from the southeastern
corner of the Syrian territory captured in the Yom Kippur War today, marking the end
of the'first stage of the four-stage disengagement process agreed to at Geneva.
Th entire process is expected to be completed no later than June 26, when Israel
hands over to the United Nations Disengagement Observation Force (UNDOF) three
positions on Mt. Hermon, the town of Kuneitra and the Rafid salient which Israel has
occupied since the 1967 war.
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Defense Minister Shimon Peres demanded Wednesday that
those responsible for torturing Israeli prisoners of war in Syria be brought to trial.
Speaking to the Knesset, Peres described tortures suffered by Israeli POWs and
said that as soon as the government completes its investigation of the acts of cruelty
committed by the Syrians it will publish a full report.
Peres charged Syria with not only violating the Geneva Convention on the treat-
ment of prisoners, but also acting in a way that "is beneath any human standards in
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NEW YORK—President Nixon was urged to press the Syrian government, during his visit this weekend, to release Jews in
prisons in that country and to remove restrictions affecting the 4,600 Jews' there.
In a telegram to Mr. Nixon, Abraham Dwek, president, and Rabbi Joseph Harari, director of the Committee for Rescue of
Syrian Jewry, asked him to raise the question of treatment of Syrian Jews with governmental authorities there and to urge the
-freeing of "those unjustly imprisoned."
They also asked that President Nixon make clear to the Syrians that the U. S. will offer asylum to all Syrian Jews who
wish to come here. There are presently 25,000 Jews in the U. S. of Syrian origin.
Sen. Walter Mondale (D., Minn.) also has urged President Nixon to call on -the Syrian government to let the remaining
Syrian Jews emigrate to the United States.
In a resolution introduced in the Senate last week, Mondale said that to allow the Syrian Jews into the U. S. would "in no way
exacerbate the military or political situation" in the Middle East.
Mondale told the Senate he was urging that the U. S. open its doors to the Syrian Jews because of the Syrian government's ban
on emigration out of fear the Jews might go to Israel.
The Syrian Jews are being "treated as hostages" in the Syrian conflict with Israel, he said, adding they are "by any
standard oppressed."
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A bipartisan group of 38 congressmen has asked President Nixon to intervene on behalf of Syrian Jewry while he is in
Damascus. The Rabbinical Alliane and the Rabbinical Council of America sent telegrams to Mr. Nixon asking him to push for free
emigration for Jews in his talks with the Syrian leaders.
Meanwhile, the trial of Azur Zalta and Yossef Shalough, the two Jewish youthL --- cused of killing four Jewish women, has
begun in Syria and already completed two sessions behind closed doors, it was learned by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF).
Haim Eliachar, ASF president, stated that "on the eve of President Nixon's visit to the Middle East and the opening of
diplomatic channels with Syria, we trust that the Syrian government will follow universally accepted judicial_procedure by allow-
ing the defendants full legal representation."
Eliachar added that "we fervently hope that President Nixon will encourage the Syrian government to grant its 4,500
Jews the right to emigrate."
In London, the Anglo-Jewish Association has sent a telegram to Syrian Ambassador A. Romran asking for a fair and open
trial for Shalough and Zalta.
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