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Demjanjuk's American at- torney, Mark O'Connor, main- tained that the accused is not the former Treblinka death camp guard who was known to the inmate as "Ivan the Terrible" because of his brutality and was held re- sponsible for the deaths in the gas chambers of 850,000 Jews and thousands of Gypsies. Furthermore, O'Connor in- sisted, the Ukrainian-born retired automobile worker from Cleveland, Ohio, is a vic- tim of evidence fabricated in the Soviet Union, the victim of a KGB plot, and that he was extradited from the U.S. on a murder charge but is now being charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish people. O'Connor also challenged Israel's right to bring him to trial because the alleged crimes were not committed on Israel's soil, were not com- mitted against Israeli citi- zens, and were not committed by a citizen of Israel. Judge Don Levin, president of the three-judge.panel hear- ing the case, enjoined O'Con- nor repeatedly to confine himself strictly to the matter of jurisdiction and to leave the question of identity to a later stage, after the prosecu- tion has presented its evidence. But O'Connor in- sisted that the issue were in- tertwined and the court allowed him to present his arguments on both jurisdic- tion and substantial proof. In addition to Levin, who is a Justice of the Supreme Court, the panel consists of two Jerusalem District court judges, Dalia Dorner and Zvi ml. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began legal proceedings in 1977 to strip Demjanjuk of his American citizenship on grounds that he lied about his collaboration with the Nazis when he entered the U.S. In 1984, he was ordered de- ported as a suspected war criminal. He was extradited to Israel for trial in February 1986, a year almost to the day before the opening of his trial. The courtroom is a 300-seat converted cinema house. Its gallery was packed at the trial's opening with local and foreign reporters and televi- sion camera crews. The 66-year-old Demjanjuk, father of two, entered the prisoner's dock flanked by two policemen. New Soviet Book Called Anti-Semitic New York (JTA) — A group of Moscow and Leningrad Jewish activists have written to Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev expressing "feelings of alarm and concern" over a recently released book which appears to revive some of the most insidious canards of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it was re- ported here last week by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ). The 254-page book, "On the Class Essence of Zionism," written by A.Z. Romanenko, was published in 50,000 copies, twice the usual number for major tomes, the SSSJ said. The activists pointed out that the book claims that "there was no Inquisition against Jews, no mass kill- ings, but 'national liberation movements:" The activists also pointed out that the book asserts that "the Jews themselves insti- gated pogroms in Russia in the beginning of the century to start immigration to America, and, finally, as the culmination of their cunning, the Zionists did everything they could to set the fascists against the USSR'." ADL Compiles Refusenik List New York — The Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has published and is dis- tributing a nearly five-pound book listing the names of ap- proximately 11,000 Soviet Jews who have been re- peatedly refused permission to emigrate. Titled A Uniquely Jewish List: The Refuseniks of Russia, the telephone book-sized vol- ume is being sent to members of Congress, the U.S. state de- partment and other federal of- ficials and will be read at ral- lies in behalf of Soviet Jewry on Feb. 26 throughout this country and 42 other nations.