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Begin Urges Cabinet Freeze
on Basic Commodity Prices
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
prevailed on his Cabinet
Monday to maintain the
current freeze on the prices
of basic commodities sub-
sidized by the government
for the time being.
That decision and the an-
nouncement by the Central
Bureau of Statistics that the
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cost-of-living index rose by
only 3.5 percent in June
compared to 4.8 percent in
May and a record 8.7 per-
cent in April, promised
some respite for harried
consumers.
The treasury expressed
satisfaction with the decline
of the cost of living rate for
the second consecutive
month, attributing it to the
government's restraining
efforts and the slower rise of
seasonal factors. But eco-
nomic analysts were skepti-
cal.
They said the slower
rise in the price index
during the last two
months was due mainly
to seasonal drops in the
prices of certain items,
chiefly fruit and vegeta-
bles and the govern-
ment's delay in raising
prices which, neverthe-
less, is inevitable.
Begin insisted on the
delay to cool down inflation.
His economic ministers on
the other hand, had pressed
fob the reduction or elimina-
tion of price subsidies for
basic commodities which
the treasury can ill afford.
This would lead- to sharp
price increases.
As a result of Monday's
decision, the prices of such
items as fuel and frozen
meat will remain stable for
the time being. Gasoline
now sells at about $2 a gal-
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New Trial for War Criminal
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
A new trial for Pieter Men-
ten, the 80-year-old Dutch
millionaire charged with
war crimes committed in
eastern Galicia in 1941, will
start Sept. 25 in a Rotter-
dam District Court.
Menten was originally
sentenced to 15 years im-
prisonment on these
charges by an Amsterdam
District Court in December
1977. He appealed and the
sentence was quashed by
the Dutch Supreme Court
on formal grounds in May
1978 and it ordered a new
trial by The Hague District
Court.
Last December, The
Hague District Court ruled
that The Hague Public Pro-
secutor was not authorized
to prosecute Menten be-
cause of an alleged promise,
by the minister of justice in
October 1952 that Menten
could no longer be prose-
cuted.
The public prosecutor
appealed, and the Sup-
reme Court ordered on
May 22 a new trial by the
Rotterdam District
Court. Menten is under
house arrest in Blaricum,
east of Amsterdam.
Meanwhile, Siert Bruins
will stand trial in Hagen
Westphalia Oct. 29 on
charges of war crimes com-
mitted when he was a Dutch
member of the Nazi SD in
- April 1945.
According to the charges,
on the eve of the liberation
of northeastern Holland,
Bruins and a German asso-
ciate, August Neuhaeuser,
executed two Jewish
brothers surnamed Sleutel-
berg who they discoverd by
chance in their hiding place.
Bruins was sentenced to
death in absentia by a
Dutch special tribunal in
April 1949. He managed to
escape across the border to
Germany in the early
post-war days. He has lived
there ever since under the
name of Siegfried Bruns
and acquired West German
nationality.
Bruins was exposed by
the efforts of two Dutch
journalists in July 1978.
One of the difficulties at
the forthcoming , trial is
whether Bruins is actu-
ally now a citizen of West
Germany. He may have
acquired citizenship on
false pretenses.
Holland has asked for his
extradition, but its request
has, been provisionally re-
jected because his national-
ity is uncertain.
In Washington, an
amendment proposed by
Reps. Elizebeth Holtzman
(d-N.Y.) AND William
Lehman (D-Fla.) increasing
funding for the investiga-
tion and prosecution of sus-
pected Nazi war criminals
living in the United States
overwhelmingly passed the
House last Week. The
amendment raises the
amount appropriated for
Nazi investigations in fiscal
year 1980 from $1.5 to $2.3
million.
- The Holtzman-Lehman
amendment also added $2.3
million to the appropriation
for the Criminal Division in
the Department of Justice
to which the Nazi unit has
recently been transfered
from the Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
In a related develop-
ment, the attorneys for
the parties to a libel suit
brought by an alleged
Nazi collaborator
Tscherim Soobzokow
against Howard Blum,
author of "Wanted: The
Search for Nazis in .
America," gathered in
the offices of the World
Jewish Congress in New
York last week for a pre-
trial examination of
Bessy Pupko, a World
_ Jewish Congress execu-
tive who is in charge of a
department maintained –
by the WJC in New York
to gather information
about persons sought on
charges of crimes against
humanity during the Nazi-
years.
The New York Times
Book Co., as publishers
the book, agents of ti
United States Immigration ,
and Naturalization Service,
and officials of the United
States Attorney's OffiCe, are
co-
as
being / sued
defendants. Soobzokow al-
leges they all conspired to
libel him.
Miss Pupko was ques-
tioned about a list of alleged
Nazi collaborators trans-
mitted to the INS which is
referred to in Blum's book.
When asked to explain why
Soobzokow's name was not
on the list, she said it was
based only on published
sources, but there was a
separate individual file for
Soobzokow in the WJC
office, which showed no evi-
dence one way or the other
about Soobzokow's guilt.
The entire file was put in
evidence.
The department has been
responsible for locating
thousands of witnesses for
trials of war criminals, and
persons charged with
crimes against humanity,
and has earned the praise of
both the West German
authorities and the U.S.
Immigration and Naturali-
zation Service.
Religious Leaders With Carter
at Crucial Camp David Sessions
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
national interreligious af-
fairs director of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, said
that he and a group of other
religious leaders and
sociologists met with
President Carter at Camp
David July 10 a"at the re-
quest of the President to
explore what we could con-
tribute to the common wel-
fare of the American people
as it faces on of the great
watershed crises of our
time."
Those meeting with Car-
ter examined a number of
practical issues, Tanen-
baum said. The issues in-
cluded "the need to gain
energy independence from
the OPEC (Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tries) cartel and its threat to
the autonomy of American
foreign policy; the need for
effective conservation; the
need for alternative sources
of energy" and "how to help
American people recognize
that the era of superabun-
dance is coming to an end
and the urgent need for
modifying lifestyles that
puts an end to waste, mate-
self- Cooke of Ne w York, repre-
and
rialism
senting the U.S. Catholic
indulgence."
Tanenbaum said he Conference; Claire Randall,
was hopeful that as a re- general secretary, National
sult of the Camp David Council of Churches; Father
meeting "major Christian Theodore Hesburgh,
and Jewish bodies will president, Notre Dame
play a central and con- University; Robert Bellah,
structive role in enabling professor of sociology and
our people not only to comparative studies, Uni-
versity of California at Ber-
survive but to prevail."
Other members of the keley; and David Reisman,
group who met with Carter professor of social science,
were: Terence Cardinal Harvard University.
Rabbi Rules Against Birth Control
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef has issued a
lengthy halachic judgement
ruling that birth control is
forbidden by religious law.
He declared that there is
no justification for family
planning even if the reason
is shortage of housing and
low income. The only per-
mission to use birth control
should be given to women
who must not become pre-
gnanf for health reasons, he
said.
Yosef also issued a call to
other prominent rabbis
warning against the estab-
lishment of family planning
-
centers. "Such centers,"
said Yosef,."exploit the in-
nocence of women
Mideastern origin, teacii
them how to use birth con-
trol devices, and sometimes
even encourage abortions."
Reacting to this . docu-
ment, Labor Alignment MK
Rabbi Menahem Hacohen
said that one could not deal
with the issue of birth con-
trol without taking into ac-
count the social surround-
ing of the woman using it.
Hacohen criticized the
Chief Rabbi for issuing such
a statement without
thoroughly consulting other
rabbis and professionals.