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San Jose, Costa Rica (JTA) —
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
has launched the latest cam-
paign to force Costa Rica to ex-
pel an accused Nazi war
criminal.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the
center's Israel office, even went
to the home of Bodhan Koziy-
with a BBC television crew in
tow — during the three-day vis-
it to this Central American na-
tion.
Mr. Koziy was not at home at
the time, according to neighbors.
Mr. Koziy, 73, who apparent-
ly has been living in a suburb of
San Jose for the last decade, was
a Ukrainian police official dur-
ing World War II.
In August, Rep. Michael Mc-
Nulty, D-N.Y., personally hand-
ed a letter — signed by 60 other
congressmen — to Costa Rican
President Jose Figueres that
said, "Judges in the United
States and prosecutors in Ger-
many affirmed that Koziy was
a Nazi policeman in Ukraine,
where he shot and killed —
amongst others — a 4-year-old."
In 1982, Mr. Koziy, the own-
er of a Florida motel, was
stripped of his citizenship. The
U.S. Justice Department ob-
tained a court order to deport
him in 1984, but he fled to Cos-
ta Rica.
Mr. Zuroff, then an investi-
gator for the Office of Special In-
vestigations of the Justice
Department, had taken part in
the investigation that led to the
revocation of citizenship.
In 1986, Costa Rica refused
the Soviet Union's request for
Mr. Koziy's extradition. A year
later, the Costa Rican govern-
ment overruled a local court or-
der to extradite him to the
Soviet Union.
When Mr. Zuroff was in Cos-
ta Rica this week, he also met
with high-ranking government
officials as well as with members
of the Jewish community.
"Our mission here was to see
what it will take to see Koziy is
kicked out of Costa Rica and
hopefully put on trial," Mr.
Zuroff said in an interview.
Mr. Zuroff said the center
wants either Ukraine to ask for
an extradition or Costa Rica to
throw him out.
He added that throwing Mr.
Koziy out "is more easily doable
because it depends only on the
Costa Rican government."
Mr. Zuroff also said of Mr.
Koziy, "This man is a hands-on
murderer."
In September, the Costa Ri-
can ambassador to the United
States, Sonia Picado, said in a
statement that she was — hope-
ful" that the extradition of Koziy
would take place soon.
Eritrean Leader
Visits Israel
Jerusalem (JTA) — The presi-
dent of the East African nation
of Eritrea made a brief visit to Is-
rael, stopping over for talks with
Prime Minister Shimon Peres
and President Ezer Weizman be-
fore heading on to Italy.
After meeting with Mr. Peres,
Eritrean President Isaias Afw-
erki said that the two countries
would step up cooperation in the
fields of medicine and agricul-
ture.
Israel already operates a mod-
el farm and medical facility in Er-
itrea, which broke away from
Ethiopia and gained its inde-
pendence
in 1994.
During the visit, Mr. Afwerki
denied that Israel had provided
any military aid during Eritrea's
recent dispute with Yemen over
a Red Sea island.
'e don't need any experience
or arms from anyone in this re-
gion," he told reporters.
Highway Appeal
Is Rejected
Jerusalem (JTA) — The Israeli
Cabinet rejected an appeal by
three ministers to reconsider con-
struction of the Cross-Israel
Highway.
The controversial project has
been touted by some as the an-
swer to the country's jammed
roads; its critics have called the
highway an environmental dis-
aster.
Minister Yossi Beilin, Agri-
culture Minister Ya'akov Tsur
and Environment Minister Yos-
si Sarid had called for the for-
mation of a ministerial
committee to review again the
plans for the road.
They joined environmental
groups opposed to the plan who
argue that the highway will not
provide an answer to the coun-
try's traffic problems and that in
time it will destroy the remain-
ing open spaces in central Israel,
causing irreversible damage to
the environment.
The road is planned to stretch
some 190 miles from the Galilee
to the Negev.
Construction of the road's first
phase, a 55-mile stretch from
Hadera to Gedera, has already
begun.
Supporters of the project,
including Housing and Construc-
tion Minister Benjamin Ben-
Eliezer, argued at Sunday's
Cabinet meeting that without the
road, the nation's highways would
turn into one huge traffic jam.
He also said that environ-
mental factors are being taken
into account in the highway's
planning.