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Special to The Jewish News Come Visit I Stuart Germansql OBSERVATIONS MON—SAT THURSDAY 10:00-5 -8:45 Enter from 12 Mile Rd. OR Easy access • Franklin Rd. Enter through Cloymor Apt. ntronce Formerly the Roquetime Bldg. n newly r modeled closer you look e bett r we get. • The extraditions of Andrija Artukovic and Ivan Demjanjuk within the last month were twin triumphs of a legal tool rarely used in the prosecution of al- leged Nazi war criminals in this country. But extradition, a simple and direct method of removing wanted individuals from one country to another, should be the preferred method rather than the exception. Extradition has been sought against three individuals accused of commit- ting war crimes under Nazi auspices: Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, Andrij a Artukovic and Ivan Demjanjuk. In each case the request has been successful and the accused sent to the requesting country: West Ger- many, Yugoslavia and Israel, respectively. Extradition, unlike denat- uralization and deportation, is relatively swift and sure. Most cases are resolved within 12 months (including Supreme Court review) rather than the five to seven year period for denaturalization and deporta- tion. The denaturalization pro- ceeding against Demjanjuk began in 1977; the deportation proceeding which began in 1982 was still in progress at the time of his extradition. The extradi- tion began with Israel's request to the• U.S. for Demjanjuk in December, 1983, and ended when he arrived in Tel Aviv in February, 1986, after the Su- preme Court declined to review the case and Justice O'Connor declined to stay the proceeding. While this took more than two years, it is demonstrably quicker than the denaturaliza- tion/deportation process of more than eight years. Similarly, Artukovic's ex- tradition began with Yugo- slavia's request for him in November, 1984, and ended with his arrival in Zagreb in February, 1986. Justice Rhen- quist declined to block Ar- tukovic's removal from the U.S. The current deportation pro- ceedings were re-opened in 1979. But a little more than a year after Yugoslavia renewed its ex- tradition request for Artukovic, he was in their country. These two cases should not be allowed to become isolated ex- amples of success. But the sad reality is that there are no other extradition requests for alleged Nazi war criminals now pending before U.S. courts. The tradition process is one go' treaty. Each treaty ly negotiated be- tween thi r U.S. and the other country. ome of the treaties are very • , (for example, the ex- tra. ion treaty between the .S. and Yugoslavia dates to 1901 when Yugoslavia was the Kingdom of Serbia), but they re- plain valid. today_ .The United States has existing -treaties of extradition with virtually every country involved in the Holo- caust except the U.S.S.R. and East Germany, but that should not deter the adoption of an aggressive extradition policy by this country. For too long we have heard that the countries of the West, particularly the United States, have harbored individuals ac- cused of concealing their past activities as willing supporters and participants in the destruc- tion and extermination of six million Jews. In 1977, the United States began its first, tentative steps to remove these individuals from our country. In 1979, the Office of Special In- vestigations was created within the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. That office has now existed for seven years and 10 individuals have been deported; World War II was over and won in six years. The time is at hand to say to the world: we have these people and we want you to try them for their crimes. Be it France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Hungary or Austria, treaties of extradition exist and their provisions should be util- ized. It is time to stop listening to the hypocritical and sanctim- onious bleatings of those who can only see fault in the U.S. We made a mistake in letting accus- ed war criminals into our coun- try. But we admitted it and em- barked on a course to cleanse ourselves. The problem now is not an American problem; it is a universal one. If the countries of the victims are not interested in trying the persecutors for their crimes, then why should we have to bear the burden of their indifference? What we need is a strong diplomatic initiative telling our erstwhile allies that if they are as serious as we are about bring- ing war criminals to justice, it is time for them to act as well. Poland, for example, has a war crimes commission and a treaty of extradition with the United States; let them ask for a suspected war criminal. If a judge agrees then the case ii closed. The Soviet Union presents a more difficult legal problem because there is no treaty of ex- tradition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In 1943, however, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist. Republics signed a convention in Moscow. The problem that we have is time; extradition (and its var- iants) presents a possible solu- tion to that problem. More im- portantly, an individual whose extradition is Ought usually is jailed as soon as the proceeding begins. In deportation, jail is the rare exception, not the rule. Given our dismal record since World War II, we have nothing, to lose by trying this approach. . ,