24 Friday, January 19, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Legal Victory Won Against Accused Nazi Criminal Living in the U.S. NEW YORK (JTA) — "For the first time since 1959, the United States has had a legal victory against Andrija Artukovic," Martin Mendelsohn, director of the Immigration and Naturali- zation Service (INS) special litigation unit for the pros- ecution of Nazi war crimi- nals, told a discussion group sponsored by the Shad Polier Human Rights Memorial Library of the American Jewish Congress. The deportation proceed- ings against Artukovic, ac- cused of murder of some 80,000 Yugoslays, mostly Jews, while he was minister of interior of the Nazi pup- pet state of Croatia during 1941-44, resumed in Los Angeles last week. Mendelsohn said the presiding judge ruled that the INS could question Ar- tukovic on documeAts, cross-examine him on depo- sitions and require his a presence in the courtroom. Artukovic, who resides in Surfside, Ca., had claimed that the INS had violated former court or- ders by serving him a subpoena for the current hearings, but the federal judge ruled in favor of the INS. The subpoena was served on Artukovic in California. Mendelsohn, who had come to the New York meet- ing from Baltimore where he had attended the first day of the reconvened Kar- lis Detlays deportation hearing, said he was gratified that an overflow crowd had to be turned away from the hearing in Baltimore. Detlays has been accused of atrocities against the Jews of Riga. at Ati- oacY eiPi ----- 2 r$ •4et • Mendelsohn reported that an Israeli witness, Frieda Michelson, of Haifa, YES—So the Jewish National Fund JNF land supports the whole Israel economy — it grows food — on it stands Israel's religious, educational and welfare institutions. A bequest to the JNF is a bequest to the entire Jewish people, linking the name of the Testator with Israel in perpetuity. 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He petitioned the minister in his capacity as chairman " of the Interchurch Com- mission for Judicial In- stitutions. Diepenhorst belongs to the Calvinist wing of the Christian Democratic Party. The prisoners, all Ger- mans, are Ferdinand aus der Fuenten, Franz Fischer and Joseph Kotaella, all originally sentenced to death for crimes committed during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Their sentences NV-ere later commuted to life imprisonment. In March 1972, a petition for their re- lease then under considera- tion by the government, raised a storm ofprotest and a motion to that effect was defeated in parliament by a vote of 85-61. Diepenhorst argues that the three men, confined to Breda Prison in southwest Holland for the past 33 years, should be released because punishment has no meaning for prisoners who are old and are no longer fully competent mentally. Organizations of war vic- tims and former resistance fighters said they would op- pose his appeal. In a related develop- ment, a campaign to pro- test the expiration next Dec. 31 of West Ger- many's statute of limita- tions on Nazi war crimi, nals will take place Jan. 30 throughout North America, it was an- nounced by Rabbi Ab- raham Cooper, coor- dinator of the interna- tional effort on behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva Uni- versity of Los Angeles which is coordinating the Jan. 30 protest campaign. Rallies have already been planned in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Detroit, Vancou'ver, Seattle, At- lanta, Chicago and Houston and several other cities are in the process of planning rallies as. well, according to Cooper. Israel Laxity on •Falashas Is 'Confirmed' by Document JERUSALEM (JTA) — A people ethnically or cultur- document prepared six ally. Dr. Luttwak warned years ago by an Absorption that if aliya were Ministry researcher encouraged, many other recommended to the gov- Ethiopians, seeking to im- ernment and the Jewish prove their living Agency not to encourage standards, would pretend to Falasha aliya to Israel. be Falashas in order td be The document was pub- admitted to Israel. licized for the first time last A spokesman for the Ab- week and Falasha activists sorption Ministry said that here said it confirmed their the document had not recent allegations that the served as a guideline or government and the agency basis for policy decisions by have not been acting the government or the energetically to bring their Jewish Agency. The brethren from Ethiopia to spokesman repeated earlier Israel. statements by other high of- The Falasha activists ficials that the government claim that over recent years had done and was doing a thousands of their brethren great deal to help Falashas have been killed or sold into make aliya — but political Secret Meeting slavery as a result of the sensitivity dictates that all political upheavals in details be kept secret. Between Israel Ethiopia. China Officials The document was a Toy Campaign LONDON (JTA) — High report by a Dr. Luttwak, for War Orphans researcher for the Ab- level direct contacts be- sorption Ministry, on NEW YORK — Masada, tween Israel and China are world Jewry. It cited rea- the youth movement of the believed to have taken sons of policy — the im- Zionist Organization of place, confirming the latest portance and delicacy of America, will organize a widespread reports of a sof- Israel's relations at that 1979 nationwide "Toys for tening in the attitude of the time with Ethiopia — as Israel War Orphans Cam- People's Republic of China one basis for its recom- paign." The campaign, in- towards the Jewish state. mendations not to itiated after the Yom Kip- One of these meetings, encourage Falasha aliya. pur War in 1973, has be- still unconfirmed, may have (Emperor Haile Selas- come an annual event. been between Israeli De- sie's government was al- The campaign is co- fense Minister Ezer Weiz- ways negatively disposed sponsored by the Engineer- man and Huang Hua, ,Chi- to the idea of Falasha ing Corps of the Israel De- na's foreign minister and fense Forces, which distrib- former ambassador to the aliya.) The document, moreover, utes the toys in Israel. United Nations. . The toys are given out It is believed here that cited learned authors to the the two men met briefly effect that the Falashas are during Purim, as part of a part of the ethnic mosaic the age-old tradition of in top secret near Zurich that forms the Ethiopian "Mishloakh Manot" — last summer. Huang stopped over there after a nation and that they have the distribution of gifts. no real links to the Jewish The toys will be shipped trip to Zaire in Central to Israel in February. Any- Africa. Weizman landed one interested in aiding the at Zurich after a mysteri- MK Would Quit project should write Masada ous flight to London Knesset Pending at the Zionist Organization where he had met Lord of America, 4 E. 34th St., Rothschild in connection Appeal Outcome with Israel's Defense •JERUSALEM (JTA) — New York 10016. Ministry business. • Likud MK Shrnuel Re- Earlier, Huang had met chtman said that he would Housing Interest Chaim Herzog, then Israeli resign from the Knesset if INDIANAPOLIS .(JTA) Ambassador to the United the Supreme Court rejected — A Jewish Welfare Feder- Nations, in New York. That his appeal against his con- ation survey aniong In- meeting, and the relaxed viction for accepting a bribe dianapolis JeivS 60 and over atmosphere at it, reflected from a building contractor indicated that 25 percent China's positive reaction to while serving as mayor of would be interested in the breakthrough in Rehovot eight years ago. federation-sponsored hous- Israeli-Egyptian relations, He was sentenced to 31/2 ing with such supportive following President Anwar years in prison. Hi; an- services as meals, social Sadat's visit to Jerusalem. nouncement that he would services and transportation. 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