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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.