THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

24 Friday, July 18, 1980

Israelis Jam
Stern Concert

LENNY
LIEBERMAN

Orchestra

TEL AVIV — Violinist
Isaac Stern played before
his largest audience last
weekend when he per-
formed for an audience of
130,000 Israelis.

559-0844

Quality Music
Disco Dance Instruction
Floor Show

(audience participation)

ALL IN ONE

To know how to hide one's
ability is great skill.

If you're not
wearing it,sell it.

You can't enjoy jewelry if it's sitting in your safe
deposit box. Sell it for immediate cash. We pur-
chase fine gems, Diamonds and Gold Jewelry.
A service to private owners, banks and estates.
Call 642-5575.

est. 1919

30400 Telegraph Road
Suites 104/134
Birmingham, MI 48010
(313) 642-5575

LAWRENCE M. ALLAN
President

GEMOLOGIST DIAMONTOLOGIST

Midnite
Madness

FRI., JULY 18th

BARGAINS! BARGAINS!

ON EVERYTHING ..

0 TO

60 0 I

OFF

MOST ITEMS IN STOCK.

OFFICE-ART

DRAFTING
SUPPLIES

LINCOLN CENTER

26000 Greenfield at 10'/s Mile Rd.

968-2620

Nazi War Criminal Granted Full Liberty
Following Sentence of Five More Years

ROME — A military tri-
bunal in Bari has decided
that Walter Reder, 65, a
former SS major and the
last convicted Nazi war
criminal in Italy, will be
granted full liberty in five
years.
He has • been imprisoned
since he received a life term
in 1951 for ordering the kil-
ling of more than 600 civi-
lians in Marzabotto in Tus-
cany, central Italy, in 1941.
The marzabotto town
council has repeatedly said
that Reder's release would
insult the memory of those
who died in the massacre.
The tribunal, which re-
voked the life sentence,
said he was still consid-
ered a war criminal and
would have to remain in
jail for another five years
under supervised deten-
tion. It said the decision
was taken after consider-
ing Reder's good conduct
and the time he has al-
ready served.
In New York, deportation
could be the final step for a
71-year-old man who
"actively participated in
beatings and executions of
unarmed Jewish civilians"
in the Ukraine during
World War II, according to
federal authorities.
The allegations were
made against Michael Der-
kacz by the Justice Depart-
ment in Federal District
Court in Brooklyn as it
began a civil suit to revoke
his citizenship.
Derkacz, a retired win-
dow washer from Queens,
N.Y., became a naturalized
American citizen five years
after he .entered the United
States in 1949 by having
"wilfully misrepresented
and concealed his service"
in the Ukrainian police
unit, the Justice Depart-
ment charged.
Deportation to the Soviet
Union, where Derkacz' al-
leged crimes occurred, is a
possibility if the proceed-
ings to strip him of his U.S.
citizenship are successful.
Allan Ryan, Jr., direc-
tor of the Justice De-

IT'S A BUYER'S
MARKET .. .
NOW IS THE TIME!

_

AL STEINBERG

1111

SALES and
EXPERT SERVICE

29300 TELEGRAPH

JUST NUri I- H OF TEL-TWELVE MALL

.

partment'a Office of Spe-
cial Investigation cur-
rently investigating
about 300 suspected war
criminals, reported that
the Derkacz case is the
10th in which this special
unit has tried to revoke
the citizenship of a war
criminal.
-
When reached at his
home, Derkacz called the
Justice Department's alle-
gations "an honest-to-God
lie" and claimed that he
"protected the people (Jews)
from the Germans."
Derkacz said he plans to
fight the government's de-
naturalization proceedings.
When pressed as to why he
never mentioned to Ameri-
can consular officials in
West Germany that he had
served as a policeman in the
Ukraine, Derkacz said, "no-
body asked me."
In London it was reported
that the British govern-
ment has been asked to de-
port Dr. Edward Fields, a
leading American neo-Nazi,
who is here to meet British
neo-Nazi groups.
The Board of Deputies
of British Jews, in 4 letter
to the Home Office, de-
scribed Fields as "a
dangerous man" whose
presence was likely to
exacerbate racial ten-
sions. Fields, of Marietta,
Ga., is a leading member
of the National States
Rights Party, which is
closely associated with
the Ku Klux Klan. He
edits the racist journal,
"Thunderbolt."
In Amsterdam, convicted
war criminal Pieter Menten
has appealed to the Sup-
reme Court against the sen-
tence of 10 years in prison
and $50,000 fine.
In a related development,
there is "reason for concern"
over the increased number
of neo-Nazi incidents and
the greater readiness on the
part of rightwing ex-
tremists to achieve their
political aims by violent
means, Interior Minister
Gerhard Baum told a press
conference marking the re-
lease of the annual report of
the West German security
services.
According to the report,
there were in 1979 69 neo-
Nazi .organizations with a
total of 21,000 members.
The biggest organization is
the National Democratic
Party with 9,500 members
(compared with 10,010
members in 1978).
Baum observed that
the measures taken by
state authorities during
1979 caused a decrease in
violence perpetrated by
Nazis, a decrease which
continued thrugh the
first months of this year.
The Interior Minister
mentioned the ban imposed
at the start of 1980 on the
neo-Nazi paramilitary
"Whersportgruppe
Hoffmann," but added that
the authorities should re-
main on the alert.
In Washington, the dis-
missal of denaturalization
proceedings against a

Russian-born U.S. citizen,
Tscherim Soobzokov, of
Paterson, N.J., because the
State Department and the
Central Intelligence
Agancy knew of his services
to the Nazis in World War
II, raised questions here.
One question is whether
other alleged former Nazis
in the U.S. are protected
from effective prosecution
because of similar covers
provided them; another is
why the cover-up of Soob-
zokov was not disclosed ear-
lier, because he was granted
citizenship in Paterson on
April 17, 1961.
:Federal Judge H. Lee
Sorokin dismissed the pro-
ceedings on a motion by
Ryan.
In seven-page press
statement, Ryan said that
his office did not allege that
"Soobzokov had actually
taken part in the persecu-
tion of any person because of
race, religion or political be-
liefs" and that "such accusa-
tions had been made by
others."
He added that he did not
believe we had sufficient
evidence to prove that Soob-
zokov had in fact taken part
in persecution."
Furthermore, Ryan said,
"We cannot base a de-
naturalization action" on
Soobzokov's membership in
Nazi organizations but "we
can proceed only on a show-
ing that the defendant con-
cealed his affiliation with
such organizations."
Soobzokov is currently
chief of the Purchasing De-
partment for Passaic
County, N.J. On Dec. 5,
1979, the U.S. Attorney
General's Office and the
Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigation
(OSI) served him with a de-
naturalization notice.
The notice accused him
of concealing his collab-
oration with the Waffen
SS and his participation
in Nazi atrocities in and
around Kransnador, in
the Transcaucasus.
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
(D-N.Y.), chairwoman of

Israel Diamond
Sales Increase

RAMAT-GAN, Israel —
The export of polished
diamonds from Israel rose
22 percent during the first
half of 1980 to reach $723.8
million compared to $592.8
million for the January
through June period of last
year. June sales were $104
million compared to $90
million the same month of
1979.
Moshe Schnitzer,
president of the Israel
Diamond Exchange, attrib-
uted the industry's strong
showing to the enhanced
competitive pricing of gem
diamonds cut and polished
in Israel.
He noted that in recent
months several important
diamond dealers from India
found it profitable to make
purchases of tens of
thousands of carats at the
Israel center.

the House Judiciary Com-
mittee's sub-f;ommittee on
immigration, declared she
is "angered by the implica-
tions" of the proceedings
leading to dismissal of the
denaturalization proceed-
ings against Soobzokov.
She said that "This once
again raises the spectre of
possible connivance and col-
lusion on the part of our
government in admitting
and providing sanctuary to
suspected Nazis and makes
it all the more imperative
that a thorough investiga-
tion be conducted abour our
government's 35-year-
history of inaction in these
cases."
Ryan disclosed that
Soobzokov had, in an ap-
parently valid document,
disclosed over his signa-
ture in 1952 to U.S. Con-
sular officials at the
American Embassy in
Amman, Jordan, where
he was then living, his af-
filiation with the Waffen
SS, the North Caucasian
Legion and the
Tachtamakai town
police.
Since Soobzokov also was
accused of failing to disclose
"certain convictions in the
Soviet Union prior to World
War II," Ryan said he had
expected evidence to "show
clearly and convincingly
the nature of those convic-
tions." But, he added, "I am
not satisfied that we can
prove" the existence of the
alleged convictions or "the
acts that gave rise to them."

School Prayer
Warning Issued
by Reform Body

NEW YORK — An inten-
sive lobbying campaign by
members of the New Right
could lead to organized
prayer in the nation's public
schools, the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations warned.
Along with most main-
line religious groups, the
UAHC — central body of
Reform Judaism in the
United States — has consis-
tently opposed organized
school prayer reading as a
violation of the Constitu-
tion's provision separating
church and state.

Egyptian Invite
Due for Israel
President?

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
President Yitzhak Navon
has not yet received an offi-
cial invitation to visit
Egypt, the president's
bureau spokesman an-
nounced.
Navon reportedly ex-
pressed surprise over the
publication in the Cairo
"October" weekly that
President Anwar Sadat in-
tended to invite him. He
said he failed to understand
why the publication pre-
ceded the actual invitation.
However, it was stressed
that if such an invitation
arrived here. Navon would
certainly accept it.

