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And his role as a top aide to former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance during the Carter administration is an- other black eye in the minds of some pro-Israel activists, and Jewish neo- conservatives in particular, who viewed President Jimmy Carter as lukewarm toward Israel. "We were very definitely frozen out," said a Jewish conservative who supported Mr. Clinton. "This com- pletes a State Department team that looks very much like a rerun of the Carter years. Many of us are very disappointed." But there was muted satis- faction at the appointment of retired foreign service pro- fessional Samuel W. Lewis as director of policy plann- ing. Mr. Lewis, who served 31 years in the foreign service and eight as ambassador to Israel, has become a strong pro-Israel voice in his cur- rent role as president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. But it is unclear exactly how much of a role the policy planning job will play in the Clinton government. The former occupant of the job, Dennis Ross, was close to both the pro-Israel com- munity and to ex-Secretary of State James Baker. The result was that the policy planning division played an unusually prominent role in foreign affairs, particularly in the Mideast peace talks. "It is not clear how much power policy planning will have under Christopher," said Jess Hordes, Washing- ton director for the Anti- Defamation League. "It would be unfortunate if Sam Lewis, who is a seasoned hand with considerable ex- perience in the Mideast, peace process, is not given dg major role." There was also satisfaction in the pro-Israel world that Edward P. Djerejian, the assistant secretary for Near East and South Asian Af- fairs, was retained from the- Bush administration. Since his appointment in 1991, Mr. Djerejian, a former am- bassador to Syria and a State Department profes- sional, has won high marks for his fair handling of the4 Mideast peace talks. Pro-Israel groups had urg- ed the Clinton transition team to retain Mr. Djerejian as a way of providing con- tinuity in the peace talks. ❑ Accused Nazi Guard Dies New York (JTA) — Sergis Hutyrczyk, a Somerset, N.J., man whose U.S. citizenship was revoked for lying about his wartime activities, died last week of natural causes. , Mr. Hutyrczyk, who was 68, had been suffering from an inoperable aneurysm in his chest. He died at home, only one day after his lawyers filed on - appeal on his behalf in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia against the order that revoked his citizenship. The Justice Department's Office of Special Investiga- tions first brought charges against him in August 1990. OSI had intended to pur- sue deportation orders against Mr. Hutyrczyk if his appeals had failed. Mr. Hutyrczyk, who im- migrated to the United States in 1954, lost his 4 citizenship last October bas- ed on his admission that he had served as an armed guard at the Koldyczewo concentration camp in .4 Byelorussia, now Belarus, during World War II. Mr. Hutyrczyk, a native of Baranowice, Byelorussia, denied he was personally responsible for any killings. However, the government charged that he was known as the "black commander" in the concentration camp. •