THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Latvian World War II Criminal
Maikovskis Identified in Recent Hearing
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NEW YORK — Boleslays
Maikovskis, a 73-year-old
retired carpenter living in
Mineola, Long Island, was
identified by three wit-
nesses in a New York Immi-
gration and Naturalization
Service hearing room last
week as the policeman who
beat Jews and selected
others for execution in Lat-
vian ghettos during World
War II.
Maikovskis was charged
by the INS on Oct. 13, 1976
with having committed
atrocities against Jews in
Nazi-occupied Latvia and
fraudulently hiding his
record to illegally enter the
United States in 1951.
Maikovskis made no
response as two of the wit-
nesses, flown in from Israel,
testified that they saw him
beating and whipping Jew-
ish adults and children and
forcing nonworkers into sep-
arate lines for execution in
the Dwinsk and Riga
ghettos. None of the testi-
mony so far, however, has
linked Maikovskis directly
to murder.
The Last 10 Years of Terror
• The Munich massacre
Nick Thimmesch, in a
of 11 Israeli Olympic
revealing syndicated col-
athletes.
umn on terrorists and the
• The 27 Christian pil-
threat of PLO-Palestinian-
grims killed (80 more
ism to Israel, detailed the
wounded) at Lod airport by
list of horrors that were per-
three Japanese Red Guard
petrated by the anti-Israel
terrorists dispatched by the
terrorists. In his summation
he wrote : Popular Front for the Liber-
ation of Palestine.
The Israelis document
• The murder of the U.S.
Arab terrorism going back
50 years. But even to look at ambassador to Sudan, his
the record of the last 10 deputy and the Belgian
years is to realize how num- charges d'affaires by Pales-
bed we all become to such tinians in Khartoum.
• The 32 passengers
violence. Standing out
among the 73 such incidents killed at Rome airport when
five Arabs attacked Pan-Am
are some unforgettables:
and Lufthansa planes.
Election Exhibit •
• The hijacking of an Air
France airbus by Palesti-
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
nians, its frighteneing
(JTA)—The Widener
journey to Uganda where
Library at Harvard Univer-
hostages were rescued by
sity has a unique exhibit of
Israel defense forces.
16 display cases through
• The attack on an El-Al
November describing
plane at Istanbul where
Israel's national elections
three passengers, including
last May through election
an aide of Sen. Jacob Javits,
posters, broadsides and
were killed by members of
leaflets.
the Vadia Hadad group.
The exhibit is presented
-
by the Harvard Judaica Col-
lection, and was compiled
Dr. Charles Berlin, head of
the Judaica department.
Argentina Seeks
Anti-Racism Laws
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—
President Jorge Rafael
Videla has instructed the
Justice Ministry to consider
anti-racist legislation within
a general revision of the
criminal code.
The president listed three
offenses that would be made
punishable by law: mem-
bership in an organization
based on ideas or theories of
racial, religious or ethnic
superiority ; propaganda or
publications based on such
racist theories ; and
incitement to violence by
individuals or organizations
based on racist views.
Friday, October 28, 1977 21
DIAMOND STUD EARRINGS
As the testimony prog-
ressed, however, the man
responsible for bringing the
Maikovskis case to light
was barred from the INS
hearing room by Judge
Francis J. Lyons. Simon
Wiesenthal, currently in the
U.S. on a lecture tour, sat
down briefly in a spectator's
seat until — on a complaint
from Maikovskis's lawyer
Joseph J. Lombardo — the
judge ruled that as Wiesen-
thal was not a member of
the press, he had to leave
the room. The judge said he
had closed the hearing to
the public for reasons of
security.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, a
request for a preliminary
injunction to bar enforce-
ment of ordinances prohibit-
ing a demonstration by
Nazis in Skokie, Ill. was
denied by a Federal district
judge- in Chicago last
Friday.
The request by the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union,
on behalf of a Nazi organi-
zation, sought to overturn
Skokie village regulations
which bar marches by per-
sons wearing paramilitary
uniforms, require that a
$350,000 parade bond be
posted, and prohibit the dis-
tribution of literature that
would incite racial or ethnic
hatred.
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Begin Cleared
for Britain Trip
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
Premier Menahem Begin
will make an official visit to
Jews, Catholics
Britain Nov. 20-23. He will
be the guest of Prime Min-
Exchange Pulpits
ister James Callaghan
The trip apparently has
NEW YORK (JTA ) —
Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel, spir- been cleared by Begin's
premier
The
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itual leader of Cong.
Emanu-El, and Msgr. returned to his normal work
James F. Rigney of St. schedule Wednesday after
Patrick's Cathedral have several days of rest at home
begun a series of five lec- follwing his 10-day stay at
tures at each other's house Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv
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