STRUGGLE page 55 Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the pro-Israel lobbying group. That latter factor, which Mr. Grossman insisted has been ex- aggerated by the press, could be magnified by the recent resig- nation of an AIPAC vice-presi- dent after calling Israersdeputy foreign minister a "little slime ball." And Mr. Dine was a superb fundraiser. AIPAC has nobody waiting in the wings to pick up that function. Est. 1919 I- Fine Jewelers -ko 30400 Teleg;rttph Rd. Suite 134, l'..ina, a High School Senior Portraits 56 Since 1971 Evergreen Plaza 559-3580 Southfield Orchard Mall 851-5566 W. Bloomfield BIRMINGHAM 48009 Pim•.: 1313) 544-1124 de teoi:tai Button Men ) 855-6 Meanwhile, the speculation continues over who will replace Mr. Dine. According to the Washington gossip mill, the list of candidates includes former legislators like Rep. Mel Levine, D-Calif., Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., and Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., as well as a host of leaders of other Jew- ish organizations and Capitol Hill staffers. But that's just smoke screen, according to Washington insid- ers. Once associated with a highly partisan group like AIPAC, a politician would have great difficulty appealing to a broad-based electorate. That is why, these insiders note, it is unlikely that a major political figure would sacrifice their fu- ture chance of holding high of- fice for a chance to run AIPAC — and to report to its some- times-cranky board That leaves Mr. Dine's act- ing replacement, Howard Kohr — who has run many of AIPAC's day-to-day operations since last year, and who enjoys excellent relations with key members of the AIPAC board — as the most likely permanent replacement. 0 U.S. Files To Revoke Citizenship New York (JTA) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion in federal court here last week to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a New York state man without the customary legal proceedings because he had admitted taking part in a massacre of Jews in Poland during World War II. Jakob (Jack) Reimer, an ethnic German native of Ukraine, told Justice Department attorneys that as an sergeant in the Nazi SS, he had shot a man dead during a mass shooting of Jews in Poland. The shooting took place in either 1941 or 1942 near his extermination unit's head- quarters, the death camp training facility at Trawniki. The motion to summarily revoke Mr. Reimer's citizen- ship, filed July 8 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, is based on the grounds that Reimer's taped confession is so in- criminating that there is no need for a formal trial. Mr. Reimer, 74, has main- tained his innocence of war crimes. His lawyer, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, told the court his client is innocent and was himself a victim of the war. The Justice Department's Office of Special Investiga- tions first filed its complaint against Reimer in June 1992, a month after OSI at- torneys interviewed him. The complaint charged that Mr. Reimer "illegally procured his citizenship be- cause he advocated or assisted in the persecution" of persons "because of race, religion or national origin, which rendered his entry to the United States unlawful" under the Displaced Persons Act. A retired restaurant and food delivery manager who lives in Carmel, N.Y., Mr. Reimer was given a U.S. visa in 1952 and became a citizen in 1959. He was previously a German citizen, having become so in 1944. Captured as a Soviet army officer in 1941, Mr. Reimer was held as a prisoner of war by the German army and transferred to the Trawniki training camp for SS guards in or around September 1941. According to court docu- ments, Mr. Reimer c' "admitted that, to his knowledge, the exclusive purpose of Trawniki was to train men to murder Jews." Among the court docu- ments is a service oath he signed in 1941 in which he