Canada, Israel
Free Trade Talks
Toronto (JTA) — Canada and Is-
rael are planning a new round of
talks aimed at reaching a free-
trade agreement.
David Berger, Canada's am-
bassador to Israel, announced
that the two sides plan to hold
three days of negotiations start-
ing Jan. 6 in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Berger said it is uncertain
if a free-trade agreement would
include agricultural as well as in-
dustrial products.
Israeli Agricultural Minister
Ya'akov Tsur opposes a resump-
tion of the talks, arguing that a
free-trade accord with Canada
would harm Israeli farmers with-
out bringing them substantial
benefits.
But Mr. Berger said an accord
could be reached despite Mr.
Tsar's opposition.
Appointed to the post in July,
Mr. Berger is Canada's second
Jewish ambassador to Israel.
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U.S. Renews
Deportation Effort
New York (JTA) — Federal pros-
ecutors have filed a motion in
Boston asking a court to find
that an accused war criminal ad-
mitted to taking part in de-
stroying the Jewish population
of Vilnius, Lithuania, during
World War II.
Prosecutors said that the mo-
tion was filed because Aleksan-
dras Lileikis, 88, who has lived
for years in Norwood, Mass., has
refused to answer government
prosecutors' questions about his
wartime activities, according to
the U.S. Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations.
Mr. Lileikis, who has ac-
knowledged that he was the for-
mer head of the Lithuanian
security police — known as the
Saugamas — in the Vilnius
province, is accused of signing
orders that sent at least 40,000
Jews to Nazi death camps.
A U.S. district judge ruled
last month that Mr. Lileikis
could not invoke his Fifth
Amendment right against self-
incrimination.
"We remain absolutely com-
mitted to a speedy resolution of
the charges against Mr. Lileikis,"
said U.S. Attorney Donald Stern.
"He should not be permitted to
hide any longer behind a privi-
lege which the court has now de-
termined is inapplicable to him.
By his outright refusal to answer
the charges, we contend he has,
in effect, admitted them."
In September 1994, the Unit-
ed States sought to strip the ac-
cused Nazi of his citizenship,
charging him with concealing his
wartime activities and deport
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