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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1990

Paris (JTA) — Rene Bous-
quet, who headed the Vichy
government's police when
the Nazis controlled France
during World War II, must
go on trial for crimes against
humanity, a French court
has ruled.
Mr. Bousquet, 81, will be
the first high-ranking offi-
cial of the Vichy regime to be
tried since the immediate
post-war years.
Moreover, he will be tried
in a regular criminal court
rather than by a special
tribunal, which makes a
speedy trial more likely. The
proceedings are expected to
start next year.
Mr. Bousquet's trial will
be the first major trial for
crimes against humanity
since former Lyon gestapo
chief Klaus Barbie was con-
victed by a criminal court in
1988. Mr. Barbie is serving a
life sentence.
The Court of Appeal,
France's second-highest
jurisdiction, rejected a pros-
ecution request that a spe-
cial, and long-dormant,
tribunal try Mr. Bousquet.
Had the prosecution suc-
ceeded, it would have taken
years to constitute such a
court of specially appointed
judges, and there would
most probably have been
postponements because of
the accused's advanced age
and poor health.
In such a case, Mr. Bous-
quet might never have gone

on trial, said Nazi-hunter
Serge Klarsfeld. He along
with others affiliated with
organizations of former
deportees have accused suc-
cessive French governments
of deliberate failure to try of-
ficials and politicians of the
Vichy regime in the inter-
ests of "national unity."
The French have sought to
heal the ill feelings that ex-
isted between Gaullists and
collaborators in the post-war
period.
The ambiguous outcome of
Mr. Bousquet's first trial in
1949 was a case in point.
Tried by a special tribunal
for collaboration with the
enemy, he was sentenced to
five years of "national in-
dignity."
But the court immediately
suspended the sentence "due
to his wartime services to
the Resistance" and alleged
secret help to Jews to avoid
arrest and deportation.
But Mr. Klarsfeld and an
organization of children of
Jewish deportees have pro-
duced new documentary
evidence that Mr. Bousquet
ordered the Vichy police to
round up Jews and arrest
them, the Court of Appeals
acknowledged.
Mr. Bousquet had a long,
successful career as a banker
and headed several large
corporations and industries.
He retired five years ago
after Mr. Klarsfeld brought
new charges against him.

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U.N. Postpones Debate
On Israel Territories

United Nations (JTA) —
The U.N. Security Council
has postponed a meeting to
discuss the latest draft
resolution calling for mea-
sures concerning the Pales-
tinians in the Israeli- ad-
ministered territories, and
the issue is not expected to
come up again until next
week.
Last week's scheduled
meeting was unexpectedly
canceled, and a new date has
not yet been set. The Securi-
ty Council is expected to
spend most, if not all, of this
week on a resolution allow-
ing the use of force against
Iraq, which invaded Kuwait
on Aug. 2.
The postponement was a
welcome development for
the United States, which
wanted to move the focus of
the Security Council back to

Iraq. Washington also want-
ed to avoid voting on another
resolution in which its
longstanding ties to Israel
would come into conflict
with its desire to sustain the
Arab coalition against Iraq.
The United States twice
supported resolutions in Oc-
tober censuring Israel for
the rioting on Jerusalem's
Temple Mount, in which
Israeli police fatally shot 17
Arabs.
The latest draft resolution,
introduced Nov. 16 by the
four non-aligned members of
the Security Council, calls
for convening a meeting of
the signatories to the Fourth
Geneva Convention of 1949,
as suggested in a report by
U.N. Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar.
Israel is a signatory to the
convention,