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Waldheim Is Still Barred
From Entering U.S.

New York (JTA) — The U.S.
State Department has re-
jected a request from the
Austrian Foreign Ministry to
remove President Kurt
Waldheim's name from the
"watch list" of persons barred
from entering the United
States, a State Department
official said last week.
The Austrian ambassador
to Washington, Friedrich
Hoess, was instructed to re-
quest Waldheim's removal
from the watch list, which
bars those suspected of
persecuting people on racial
or religious grounds from
entering the United States.
The diplomatic note was
sent to the State Department
in early June. The State
Department official said
there had been "no change"
in the U.S. position.
An Austrian Embassy
spokesperson originally
would not comment on the
report of the request, which
originated in Vienna. Later,
the embassy confirmed it had
sent a note to the State
Department affirming its
belief that Waldheim's name
on the watch list contravenes
international law.

Waldheim was placed on
the watch list in April 1987,
following a year of disclosures
about his activities during
World War II, which he had
concealed during the decade
he served as secretary-
general of the United Na-
tions, from 1972 to 1982.
During the war, Waldheim
was a lieutenant and in-
telligence officer in the
Wehrmacht, or regular Ger-
man army, serving in the
Balkans, where reprisal kill-
ings and deportations were
carried out against Jews and
partisans.
A file found in 1986 in the
United Nations War Crimes
Archives lists Waldheim as
wanted for murder and says
he should stand trial for
murder and putting hostages
to death.
The order to bar Waldheim
was placed jointly by the
State and Justice
departments.
Neal Sher, director of the
Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations,
said, "The passage of time
does not have any effect on
the legitimacy and impor-
tance of this decision."

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New York (JTA) — The
skinhead movement is taking
its recruitment efforts from
the streets to the schools
warned the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith. The
new reports says that the
organization of neo-Nazi
Skinheads — young people
who shave their heads, wear
Nazi insignia, and spread
hatred and violence against
members of minority groups
— now has 3,000 members in
31 states, up from 2,000 in 21
states last October.
Although the preferred
weapons of skinheads are
knives, bats, chains and steel-
toed boots, the report said
possession of handguns,
shotguns and even semi-
automatic weapons is becom-
ing more common.
"The possession of death
weapons by volatile
youngsters filled with racial
and religious hatred warrants
the urgent attention of law
enforcement officials," the
report says.
In its report on Holocaust
revisionism, the ADL warns
that anti-Semitic scholars
and others are continuing to
deny the reality of Nazi

atrocities and are spreading
that message on radio talk
shows, in speeches to college
campuses, and in newspapers,
newsletters and videotapes.
"There is a new revisionist
trend — the emergence of
historical scholarship on the
Holocaust which
acknowledges that the Nazi
genocide took place, but
challenges the well-accepted
understanding of the motives
behind it," said Abraham Fox-
man, ADL's national director
and a Holocaust survivor.
As examples of this trend,
the report points out that,
some legitimate historians in
the United States and Ger-
many have been claiming
that the Holocaust was com-
parable to atrocities by other
nations prior to or during
World War II and should not
be singled out as a unique
historical event.
ADL's report on the Arab
boycott against Israel is
somewhat more encouraging.
It finds that the boycott has
weakened in the past decade.
Anti-boycott measures by
the United States are credited
for this progress.

