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Mr. Pawlowski, 74, was charged in November 1989 with eight counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the deaths of 410 Jews and 80 Poles killed in 1942 in the Minsk region of White Russia, now Belarus. Federal prosecutors had hoped to send a team to Belarus, formerly the Soviet republic of Byelorussia, to gather evidence against Mr. Pawlowski. But the Supreme Court last week barred an appeal of a ruling issued last May by Justice James Chadwick of the Ontario Court General Division, which found that videotaped evidence from witnesses in the former Soviet Union was inade- quate as the central basis of the case. That month a key witness died in Canada who was to have given critical testimony involving the massacre of 80 Poles and eight Jews in the village of Yeskovichi. David Matas, a lawyer for B'nai B'rith Canada, urged the Justice Department "to proceed with the case and address the evidence- gathering issue at trial." Mr. Matas, who is the au- thor of a book called Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada, said war crimes trials are suffer- ing from a low priority and a lack of sympathy and atten- tion from the judiciary. Sol Littman, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Canadian office, said that in view of the decision on videotaped evidence, Cana- dian courts should follow the example of a Scottish court that traveled to Lithuania to hear the evidence against a war crimes suspect. Mr. Littman acknowl- edged the difficulties of mounting a trial half a cen- tury after the crimes were committed but accused the government of dragging its feet in delaying investiga- tions. "If there is any sincerity whatever in Canada's pros- ecution of war criminals, then they will not stop now and, if necessary, they will simply move the venue over to the country where the crimes were committed." Mr. Pawlowski, a retired carpenter, has been living since 1951 in Renfrew, On- tario, 65 miles west of Ot- tawa. He is the second per- son arrested under war crimes legislation enacted by Parliament in September 1987. Unlike in the United States, Canadian law allows for the criminal prosecution of certain offenses perpetrated on foreign soil before the accused entered the country, in addition to civil proceedings, like depor- tation or extradition. Under the first trial enabl- ed by the war crimes amendment to the Criminal Code, Imre Finta was ac- quitted in May 1990. The 79- year-old Toronto man had been charged with the kid- napping, forcible confine- ment and robbery of 8,617 Hungarian Jews in the city of Szeged in 1944. In March, charges were dropped against Stephen Reistetter of St. Catharines, Ontario, who was accused of sending some 3,000 Jews in Bardejov, Slovakia, to Nazi death camps. Crown lawyer Gilles Renaud said there was insufficient evidence to proceed against Reistetter after two witnesses died and others proved unwilling or incapable of testifying. In Vancouver, Jacob Luit- jens, 72, was stripped of his Canadian citizenship Nov. 7 after a court ruling Oct. 23 that he had concealed his past Nazi ties when he im- migrated to Canada. The denaturalization pav- ed the way for the retired University of British Columbia botany instructor to be deported or extradited to the Netherlands, where he was tried in absentia in 1948, convicted of col- laborating with the enemy in time of war and sentenced to life imprisonment. A 1986-1987 royal com- mission headed by Justice Jules Deschenes identified 20 prime Nazi war crimes cases to be urgently pursued. The Quebec Superior Court judge also recommended an- other 200 cases be further investigated.