THE ONLY THING WE CUT BETTER THAN CARPET Is OUR PRICES, Save 30-50% On All In-Stock Carpet Now Thru Thursday l csiteA:.4t441>*4esA*eo€:. 4 sk *ow our This Week's Special y Ca . pack e Interloom Carpet Mills reg1.7Lar.95dssq. yd. Solid Loop Berber Closeoutp rice Your choice of cameo and adobe $ 6.88 sq. Yd. Mill Floor t • • • • CON' ER I N G S • • • • • • • 548-7884 • 10721 W. 10 Mile Rd. • Oak Park Hours: Mon., Thurs., Fri. 9 to 9 Tues., Wed. 9 to 6; Sat., 9 to 5 1 1 444'4447 stwem. 9.A104.+ Acia ". • NO MORE DOGGIN' • GET HIP TO POGGIN'!" HAMMER page 1 Additionally, he began to lay the groundwork for a defense that claims he has been "a mod- el American citizen" who was "as much a victim of the Nazis as were any other individuals." "With the alternative of arrest, torture, imprisonment, and death staring him in the face, many in- habitants of occupied countries were passively accommodating the Nazis," defense papers read. Mr. Hammer also raised the issue of timely charges, citing both the Fifth (right to due pro- cess) and the Eighth (forbidding cruel and unusual punishment) Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. "The prosecution of persons of crimes committed as many as 50 years in the past cannot help but raise serious, and perhaps unique, questions of procedural due process," read papers filed by Mr. Bufalino "It is extremely difficult for him to properly represent him- self, in view of his old age and the near impossibility to obtain ex- culpatory documents, witnesses, or even remember the events un- der investigation," the papers claim. Mr. Bufalino did not return telephone calls. The government must answer the defense's interrogatories, questions about the evidence the government intends to use to prove its case. No date has been set for the trial. The suit is part of the U.S. gov- ernment's ongoing investigation of alleged Nazi war criminals who, after World War II, entered the United States by concealing their wartime activities. The opening of archives fol- lowing the collapse of the former Soviet Union has led to more complaints, with previously un- available information about al- leged Nazis being made available for the first time to U.S. officials. Since the OSI was formed in 1979 to search for Nazi war crim- inals, 50 people have been stripped of their citizenship; 42 were deported and the rest were allowed to stay because of health concerns. The government also has agreed to drop civil cases, Department of Justice spokesman John Russell said. "Cases have been dropped if the individual has agreed to cer- tain conditions or if there were severe health concerns," he said. The OSI attorneys originally filed its complaint against Mr. Hammer on Dec. 13. In it, gov- ernment attorneys allege that in October 1942, at the age of 21, Mr. Hammer entered the Nazi Waffen-SS (Armed SS), a guard and intelligence unit of the Nazi Party. According to the complaint, he served for three years as a mem- ber of the Death's Head Battalion of the Waffen-SS, which was as- signed to guard and prevent es- capes of prisoners at Nazi death camps. Mr. Hammer's alleged activi- ties would have had no bearing on the United States had Mr. Hammer not immigrated to the United States from Austria where he sought work after the war. Under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, designed to allow easy entry to besieged European im- migrants, Mr. Hammer applied for and received a visa. During an interview for that visa, he al- legedly told American consulate officials in Salzburg, Austria, that he was a member of the German Army from 1942-45. In 1963, he allegedly wrote on a citizenship application that he was a member of the "German Army SS," an entity the U.S. gov- ernment said never existed be- cause the German Army was not a part of the Nazi party. If the government is success- ful in its case, Mr. Hammer will be stripped of his citizenship and forced to leave the country. ❑ AFFORDABLE FUN!!! • POG CLASSICS • MILKCAPS • POG SERIES II • SLAMMERS • STORAGE CASES • GAME BOARDS PLAY 'EM! . . . TRADE 'EM! . . . COLLECT 'EM!!! West Bloomfield 788-0330 Livonia 261-5740 Royal Oak 288-4440 Waterford 681-2223 Knoliwood Plaza 7414 Haggerty Rd. (at 14 Mile Rd.) 17134 Farmington Rd. (at 6 Mile Rd.) Northwood Shopping Ctr. 3339 N. Woodward Ave. (at 13 Mile Rd.) Highlander Square 4189 Highland Rd. (E. of Pontiac Lk. Rd.) Canton Rochester Ann Arbor Westland 981-5758 ABC Plaza 43675 Ford Rd. 299-5444 Hampton Vil. Ctr. 2795 S. Rochester Rd. 971-5588 Arborland Mall 3693 Washtenaw Ave., D-16 722-3080 Westland Plaza 6527 N. Wayne Rd. r :7177:11 - Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10-8, Fri. & Sat. 10-9, Sun. 12-5 1 '71 Eileen Weiner's class at the Adat Shalom Nursery School recently made Shabbat challah plates. Shown are Jodi Solway, Rebecca Portney and Mindy Raminick.