THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, May 17, 1985 NEWS II I I Ell I I I I I I I I I Klaus Barbie Ruled Fit To Stand Trial PROMPT & EXPERIENCED SATISFACTION ASSURED insurance estimates accepted expert color match, foreign & American TOWING & RENTAL CARS AVAILABLE La Salle Body Shop Inc. Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills ,I 48018 28829 MAX FLEISCHER 553-7111 BETWEEN 12 & 13 Mile Rd. .111.1.1 ■ 11111•1k LINDEN HOME HEALTH CARE WE WILL DELIVER TO YOUR HOME THE FINEST IN HOME HEALTH SUPPLIES. SET-UP AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE INCLUDED. HOME 0 - WE HAVE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS — NURSES & THERAPISTS — ON STAFF TO AID YOU IN THE SELECTION OF THE PROPER EQUIPMENT & USE. HEALTH •• ■ ••• 0 VI■ WE CARE FOR OUR PATIENTS AND — MOST IMPORTANTLY — WE CARE ABOUT OUR PATIENTS CARE OSTOMY OXYGEN WHEELCHAIRS HOSPITAL BEDS WALKERS/CANES BEDSIDE COMMODES AND MANY OTHER ITEMS VISIT OUR SHOWROOM 21120 GREENFIELD OAK PARK 48237 OR CALL 968-5000 WE BILL INSURANCE DIRECTLY ON COVERED GOODS & SERVICES WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY? MEA/Detroit thinks that's a perfectly good question . . MEA DFT SALARY Lobbied and won a 9% increase in state education budget. RETIREMENT Lobbied and won house passage of 8% increase, guaranteed 3% COLA adjustments, paid depen- dent health care, 30-and-out plan, OPTIONAL 4% tax-sheltered con- tribution. CERTIFICATION Testified against and halted a legis- lative move that would have re- quired every teacher to be recer- tified every five years. Stood side-by-side with adminis- trators and other anti-teacher forces to allow the attack on your certification. SECURITY Initiated a plan to provide special state funding to improve school security. Denied a security program existed in Detroit schools, then said it was not the union's job to try to correct it. Only one salary increase in the last five years and that cancelled out by loss of 10 days pay and another week's pay delayed because negotiators FAILED to bargain ad- justed pay schedule. Fought all retirement improve- ments. JUST THINK WHAT MEA/DETROIT COULD DO AS THE FULLY RECOGNIZED BARGAINING AGENT FOR DETROIT TEACHERS! MEA/Detroit . . . already on the job for Detroit Teachers. Paris (JTA) — Klaus Barbie, the "butcher of Lyon," is physi- cally and mentally fit to stand trial, medical experts have told investigating magistrate Chris- tian Riss. Barbie, the Lyons Ges- tapo chief during World War II, is expected to go on trial this fall on half a dozen charges of "crimes against humanity." These charges include the de- portation of 41 Jewish children who had been arrested at a Jewish children's home in Izieu in 1944, the deportation of 90 members of the Lyons Jewish community, and the deportation of 650 people on the last train to leave the city. The children and the adults were sent to death camps in the final days of the war. Barbie cannot be tried for murdering French resistance fighters because murder is covered by the statute of limita- tions according to French law. The three experts who exam- ined Barbie 12 times, sometimes for hours on end, reported that he "shows no remorse or regret" and refuses to discuss his wartime ac- tivities. A French paper in Lyons last weekend quoted extensively from the report prepared by psychiatrists Daniel Genin and Jacques Vedrinne and clinical psychologist Didier Weber. The three had been appointed by the court to examine Barbie's physi- cal and mental condition. In their report, drawn up a few months ago, the three said that, Barbie "is in relatively good con?, dition in spite of an important weight loss since his detention" in February 1984 when he was brought back to France from Bolivia. The three experts exam- ined Barbie at the Saint Joseph prison where he is being held. 5 In a related developmen4 Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld an- nounced last week that his wife Beatte will appeal directly to the people of Paraguay to obtain in- formation on the whereabouts of Josef Mengele, the 'notorious Au- schwitz death camp doctor. Klarsfeld said his wife will go to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, next weekend for a television appearance during which she will present a two-a- half-minute film showing at- rocities committed by Mengele, and a description of him. Mengel€ if alive, is 74 years old. He became, a Paraguayan citizen in 1959 but was stripped of his citizenship in 1979 under international pres- sure. Paraguayan officials claim that they have no knowledge of his whereabouts. ' ADL Profiles Extremists New York (JTA) — The Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) released a report Monday detailing the background and activities of "an underground network of armed racists and anti-Semites" employing gangs- ter and terrorist tactics in what the ADL describes as the first at- tempt by right-wing extremists in this century to overthrow the United States government by vio- lent revolution. According to the report, pre- pared by the fact-finding depart- ment of the ADL's civil rights di- vision, the network consists of the "Order," the "Aryan Nation" and a pseudo-Christian racist move- ment called "Identity." These and a loose affiliation of like-minded groups in the U.S., Canada and West Germany are known collectively as the "Iden- tity" movement. The ADL esti- mates their total membership in the 2,500-3,000 range. The propaganda and violence of these groups is directed primarily against Jews, blacks and His- panics. They also view with ex- treme hostility the U.S. govern- ment, its judicial system and law enforcement agencies. Their ul- timate aim is the overthrow of the U.S. government — which they label "ZOG" for "Zionist Occupa- tion Government" and its re- placement by "a nationalist racist state." The criminal violence of the network, which has resulted so far in more than two dozen arrests in 13 states, includes bank and ar- mored car robberies involving more than $4 million, counterfeit- ing operations, shoot outs with FBI agents, three murdei-s and a synagogue bombing. The ADL report noted that,' "Paradoxical as it may seem, this,J outbreak of right-wing crimina, violence on the West Coast comes at a time — and is largely a conse- quence — of a decline in the strength and influence of the far- right hate movement in the United States." Interpol Help On Mengele Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel has asked Interpol, the international police agency, to arrest and hand over to Israeli authorities Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz, death camp doctor. The decision to seek the assis- tance of Interpol was taken by the special inter-ministerial commit- tee set up in Jerusalem specific': cally to bring Mengele to justice. Justice Minister Moshe Nissim announced in the Knesset last Tuesday that the government and the World Zionist Organization are jointly offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Mengele to stand' trial in Israel. Mengele has been reported liv- ing in Paraguay under the protec- tion of the military government there. He is held responsible for the deaths and crippling of hun- dreds of thousands of Jews at Aui schwitz on whom he performed' inhuman medical experiments. The reward will be in effect for two years. ,