THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Nicaraguan Denies Country Anti-Semitic GENEVA (JTA) — Er- nesto Cardinal, Nicaragua's minister of culture, denied at a press conference here reports that Nicaragua's entire Jewish community of 50 families was forced into exile by the Sandinista gov- ernment, but his replies ap- parently failed to convince reporters present. The reports also indicated that the regime confiscated Jewish property and took over the synagogue in Man- agua. Avraham Gorn, president of the Jewish community, had been jailed after the Sandinistas took power. The Managua daily, Nuevo Diario, in July 1982, published a series of anti- Semitic articles which in- cluded a reference to the "synagogue of Satan." The minister, who was a priest before the revo- lution, denied the re- ports, claiming there were few Jews in Nicaragua, that they had intermarried and did not keep Jewish religious customs. He remarked, "I, myself, am of Jewish origin." He also asserted there were no Jewish institutions in Nicaragua, religious or civi- lian, and that there were no anti-Jewish feelings in Nicaragua, only "anti- Zionist feelings." Meanwhile, the Nicara- guan Ambassador to the United States told four representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith that his gov- ernment does not have an official policy of anti- Semitism, according to one of the ADL officials present at the meeting. Furthermore, the Am- bassador, Antonio Jarquin, said that the three cases of confiscation, including the synagogue, by the govern- ment would be reviewed; if necessary. The meeting between the ADL officials and the Nicaraguan envoy was initiated at the request of Jarquin following the publication by the ADL of a series of charges against the Nicaraguan government which in- cludes the confiscation of Jewish owned properties and forced exile of the Jewish community of some 50 persons. The ADL officials who met with Jarquin included: I. Barry Mehler, chairman of the ADL's Latin Ameri- can Committee; Abraham Foxman, ADL associate na- tional director and director of the ADL national affairs division; Jess Hordes, asso- ciate director of the ADL's Washington office; and Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, director of the ADL Latin American Affairs depart- ment. Rosenthal, in an article prepared for publication in the ADL Bulletin, the agen- cy's publication, charged that along with the confis- cation of Jewish property and forced exile of the Jewish community, the Sandinista government, which came to power in 1979, has been unrespon- sive to ADL appeals to end Life Sentence for SS Officer BONN—Heinz Barth, an SS officer during World War II, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an East German court for par- ticipating in the massacre of 734 villagers in France and Czechoslovakia during the war. 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While Jarquin said his government "had erred" in not providing a reply to ADL requests, according to Rosenthal, the ambassador "said his government had no policy of anti-Semitism and asserted that three ministers of the govern- ment are of Jewish origin." Rosenthal said that the ADL officials explained that "if they are Catholic and not identified with the Jewish faith, their ability to trace their Jewish ances- tory back one generation or more does not make them Jewish." Rosenthal reported that the ambassador said he will request that his govern- ment renew the confiscation cases on which the ADL has submitted formal inquiries. PRESERVE THE LIFE OF YOUR ASPHALT DRIVE • oar 41111r- • .•11 ► with • MO IMP Global Striping Company .11%. 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