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Please send me the T-shirt. 12 JEWISH NEWS T-SHIRT P.O. Box 2267 Southfield, Mich. 48037-2267 Name This offer is for new subscribers only. Current subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allqw four weeks for delivery. Address City State Zip Signature 1 year: $33 Payment enclosed $ Adult - L ex-large 2 years: $59 Out of State: $45 Please charge my MC/VISA. # large medium Child - Exp. Date large medium small Australian Jury Grants Acquittal Sydney, Australia (JTA) — An Adelaide jury has ac- quitted Ivan Polyukhovich, the first accused Nazi war criminal to be tried . under special Australian legisla- tion passed to ensure such prosecutions. The jury took one hour to reach a verdict following eight weeks of evidence. The outcome was not unexpected, given Judge Brian Cox's instructions to the jury. Judge Cox stressed that the lapse of 50 years since the time of the alleged crimes made it difficult for Mr. Polyukhovich to defend himself. The judge told the jurors they were duty-bound to consider that the case would have been more strongly defended had the charges been brought against Polyukhovich nearer the time they were committed. "Given that, it would be dangerous to convict on the evidence brought against him," the judge reportedly said. Craig Caldicott, Mr. Polyukhovich's lawyer, said that his client had always proclaimed his innocence and was now "very reliev- ed." "Fifty years have elapsed since the events and there were many difficulties with witness evidence," he said. The 7 7-year-old Mr. Polyukhovich was charged with involvement in the murder of up to 850 Jews, and the murder of a Jewish woman and two children in the Ukraine in 1942. While Australian Jewish groups appeared to respect the decision of the court, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said it was concerned with the judge's comments. The judge's remarks con- stituted an "ominous sign that casts doubt over the process of the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Australia," said Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel office. "If Judge Cox's instruc- tions represent judicial policy, then there is no point in continuing to prosecute Nazi war criminals in Australia, and the special law passed expressly for that purpose will ultimately be considered a dramatic but futile gesture, passed merely to placate public opinion but which achieved no practical results whatsoever," Mr. Zuroff said. However, Isi Leibler, pres- ident of the Executive Coun- cil of Australian Jewry, said, "The Australian Jewish community respected the decision of the Australian court." Speaking from Jerusalem, Mr. Leibler said, "The Australian government had acted properly by allowing for the prosecution to take place and ensuring that Australian standards of evidence were upheld. "The trial outcome does not weaken the argument that Australia has a respon- sibility to ensure that in- dividuals alleged to have committed crimes against humanity could be tried in Australian courts," Mr. Leibler said. Sarajevo Aid From U.N., JDC New York (JTA) — United Nations officials have said they will cooperate with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and fly at no cost a shipment of JDC medical supplies from Split, Croatia, to the Jewish community in besieged Sara- jevo. The supplies will be flown by the local branch of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in the Adriatic city of Split. The medications, stored by the JDC in Split, are part of a continuous supply being sent to Sarajevo and distributed to the entire population. "We currently operate three pharmacies that serve more than 15,000 patients a month — Jews, Muslims, Christians — who have no other source of help," said Ambassador Milton Wolf, JDC president. "We also sent medicines to the Sarajevo Hospital, where the inventory is rapidly be- ing depleted as a result of the renewed violence," Mr. Wolf said. Increased fighting recently between Croatian and large- ly Muslim forces in Bosnia- Herzegovina has blocked the land routes to Sarajevo. The JDC has brought to Sarajevo more than 300 tons of medicines and food.