18 Friday, January 18, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS •. ,!1r47!uu. CLOSE-UP Washington lesson Continued from preceding page and carried with her a truly startling beauty. But . . . she has shown that she knows what is re- quired to be a serious person over the long run. "Perhaps," concludes Garment, "our officials should begin to view You've asked for it WALTER HERZ INTERIORS is having a 3-DAY SALE on THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 25, 26 Everything will be 25% to 50% off including furniture, lamps and decorative accessories t-LL SALES FINAL • NO LAYAVVp,YS • CASH MASTER CHARGE VISA ACCEPTED her not merely as an incon- veniently grieving wife but as a tactician who has a few lessons to teach about dealng with the people we are about to face across the table." G.R. NEWS Court rules not to deport alleged Nazi war criminal New York (JTA) — An appeals court in San Francisco ruled last week that there exists "insuffi- cient evidence" to support the Justice Department's contention that alleged Nazi war criminal Edgars Laipenieks was person- ally responsible for the deaths of 200 prisoners at the central prison in Riga during World War II. The Department's Office of Spe- cial Investigations filed a depor- tation complaint against him in June 1981. An official of the Im- migration and Naturalization Service said, after the ruling was handed down, that he expected the Justice Department to pursue the case to the Supreme Court. Judge Thomas Tang, writing on behalf of the majority opinion of the three-member, stated: "In sum, we find insufficient evidence to support . . . determi- nation that the government es- tablished by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence that Laipenieks assisted or partici- pated in the persecution of per- sons because of their political be- liefs. "While we certainly do not con- done the treatment that prisoners apparently received at the (Riga) prison, we do not find Laipenieks' admission sufficient to support deportability." The Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles immediately as- sailed the court's decision. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Center, said, "This is a classic example that the only winners of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States are Nazi war criminals. Laipenieks gained entry into this country as a CIA informer and anti-Communist when the U.S. was willing to over- look his previous crimes." The 71-year-old former Lat- vian police official, born in the Latvian town of Rucava, gained entry to the U.S. in March 1960. He had previously been in Chile presumably since the end of World War II. In Chile, he was a track coach for the team that entered the 1952 and 1956 Olym- pic Games. He also coached the Mexican track team for the 1964 Olympics. Laipenieks claimed to have joined the Nazis after the Rus- sians killed his parents and father-in-law. Between 1941 and 1943, he is reported to have worked for the Latvian Security Police, an organization assigned to duty at the Riga prison. He was charged by surviving witnesses who still live in Latvia with par- ticipating in the beating and kil- lings of unarmed inmates, includ- ing Jewish prisoners. Laipenieks currently lives in La Jolla, Calif. where he is em- ployed as a security guard at a construction site. He admitted in past testimony that he had been employed by the CIA in the 1960s in efforts in recruit visiting Soviet athletes to defect. It is unclear when or if his employment for the CIA was terminated. HOURS: Thursday, 9 to 9 Friday and Saturday, 9 to 5 WALTER HERZ INTERIORS 1_! \( )1 ■ 111\\ !Hi \ III( • I ) 1 ∎ ( )\ 1,1)1i )1 1 I it II I I). \\I( I I. 4r)(H - • ■ -); - 41 -d ) On Human Rights Day, Dec: 10, a seminar entitled "Zionism is Racism — An Assault on Human Rights," co-sponsored by the World Zionist Organization, the World Jewish Congress and B'nai B'rith International was held at the State Departnient in Washington, D.C. Shown left •to right: Bernice Tannenbaum, WZO-American Section chairman; U.S. Anibassador to the UN, Jean Kirkpatrick; and Ambassador Meir Rosenne, Israel's Ambassador to the United States.