2 —.THE BULLETIN — Thursday. March 21.1985
: LYONS, ^ French prosecutors expect to try Klaus Barbie foricrimes^a the end of the year, but the case will, not encom pass the tortu re a nd m urde rof l*"ra nce's greatest Resistance hero.
As evidence against Barbie is assembled by the^investigating magistrate,;it became clear, the trial wiU deal with three specific charges, instead of the eight originally announced.
The three charges exclude Barbie's role in the arrest and.death in 1943 of Jean Moulin, under-ground chiefs and the Nazi police bffi-' ciaPs campaign of repression against French Resistance fighters.
If lawyers' evaluations are correct, the case against Barbie, 72v will Concentrate onabout 800 ofhis Jewish victims, offering a microcosm • of a beastlyisystem rather than a confrontation with the JMazi mechanism on its widest, most brutal scale.
"This is not going to be a great trial for history," Jjaid Serge Klarsfeld, lawyer representing families whose relatives were deported' to Nazi death camps on Barbie's orders.
Referring to Barbie's persecution of Jews, Klarsfeld added, "There won^t be any revelations for all time."
"Barbie," he sard,,"was a local chief who dealt very harshly with the French Resistance movementand Jews. He was not a figure of the niagnitude of other Nazis who have been brought to trial.
Although no official statement,has r.been. made, Pierre Iruche, general prosecUtoi-, made clear in an interview the investigating magistrate. Christian Riss,: had reduced\to three the number of incidents covered bythe charges.
The explanation islhe investigatinglriiagis-trate had to eliminate any situation that cbuld. be narrowly and technically defined as a "war crime," such as the execution or torture of . underground fighters.
Under the statute of limitations. Barbie, sentenced to death in absentia by French courts in 1952 and 1954 for war crimes, may no' longer be prosecuted for them.
The three charges relate to deportation of 650 people; most of theni Jews, to Aiischwitz and Ravensbruck camps; the deportation of 86 people arrested at the Lyons office of the je of France Committee, and. deportation to Auschwitz of 44 children fromahonie forJew-r ish children in the village of Izieu.
One of the new and central elenients in the Barbie case is a telex message eontairiing a deportation order bearing Barbie's initials;
His lawyer has described it as a forgery; noting a reference to a date on the document in French.
But Klarsfeld said the authenticity of the document will be proved in court through testimony of a German expert.
Free tride In Eilat
TEL AVIV
Premier
Shimon Peres has announced in Eilat that Israel's southernmost part town would becojne
..a free trade zone within the next two nionths: AVheh.the
•arrangement comes into force in Aprilv new economic measures will be instituted: Israelis returning to the rest of the country from Eilat will be charged duties on goods bought at duty-free shops in thetown. \ " jta
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JERUSALEM
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CALLING FOR A RSDEOICATION of principles that made ORT.a leader-In Jevi^llh education, Israel's president- Chalm Herzdg lately addressed the Max Braude ORT Technical Institute In Carmiel. The school teaches computers and rblsotlcs in tour languages to students from Israel and the Diaspora. ^
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PHILADELPHIA -Some5,000Jewish Holocaust survivors and itheir families are^expected to meBt^here April 21 to 22 to participate an thelnaugurai Assembly of the] American Gathering of Jew-ish^^Hblocaust Sumvorsi at the Civic Center, an event which will coincide with the'40t.h anniversary of the liberation: of the Nazi death camps:.
As in the past gatherings, the Civic Center will be transformed into a "survivors* vil-^ lage" where participants will gather according to the cities of their birth and the camps of their incarceration to meet each other, again.
Central to the survivor's village will be a computer bank linked with the National Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors which how contains over S3,000 names:
WASHINGTON
Con-
vinced the time is ripe for Mideast peace, Egyptian President Hbsni Mubarak last week brought his ideas to-U.S.- president Ronald Reagan.    . ^
According to Wortcl Today, M ubarak toured as a broker for peace — replacing his usual low-key syle with one more like that of the late Anwar Sadat.
The plan was to persuade President Reagan to extend an invitation for a Jordanian-^ Palestinian delegation to sit. down with Israeli officials for • talks in Washington. . Mubarak's three-day "official working visit" lacked the: pomp of a state visit — there was no White house dinner — but had a "more substantial
Mubarak also reportedly pressed Reagan for $8651 million in aid on top of the $815
million Reagan is seeking for Egypt this year.
A former, air force .pilot, war hero and vice president, Mubarak, 56; is notably; methodicalin tackling Egypt's o poverty, an ineffective bureaucracy and a massive debt.
He is a forceful leader who works 16-hour days,
"I am not an ambitious man at all," he has said. "I didn't ask to be president. I just accepted it because it is in the interest of the country — not for the fame.. . . or its luxur-Jous life."
Since taKiiig office as Egypt's third president, Mubarak has maintained the spartan life, staying with his wife; Suzanne, and two sons in a modest two-story house.
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SOLDIER ON ROOF off Tel-Ayl9 Museum Is actually sculpture by ^oti ^Izralil and forms part of a rscent eKhiSslticn of works of Israeli artists.
— A French bu.si-nessman says he has concrete proof Joseph Ivlengele is alive in Paraguay. The non-Jewish Lyon-based businessman told French daily Lyon Matin that friends in Paraguay said Mengele lives in the Pratis-Gill area between the Filadel-fia and Neuland regions. The paper does not reveal the bus-
inessman's name for security reasons.
The Frenchman said Men-gele was seen by local inhabitants who formally recognized him from published pictures.' The PartisrGill area is run by MennonitesJ which are protecting Jother former .Nazisas.welL-'--'^^"'' • ; '
In Beirut, meanwhile, Nabih Berri, Shiite leader who is member^ of theiLeba-nese government, warned Israel that towns in Galilee would come under attack in reprisal for IDF forays against Shiite villages in south Lebanon.
Berri said, "from now on, every time a village is attacked in south Lebanon, avviilage will be attacked in Galilee."
Israeli observers have dismissed the threat as largely rhetoric but acknowledged it indicated a radicalization of the Shiite moderates whom Berfi represents. ?^
Shiite fundamentalistsv who v4;all themselves //fz^/-^^^^ /flife (Party of Gp4), have been responsible for the most serious attacks oh the IDF and observers say Berri's warning could indeed spur them to try to attack Galilee villages to proye they act
while^Berri only talks.
Israel's Maj. Gen. Orr has 'warned residents of the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shem-ona the IDF must prepare for a further deterioration of the situation on the northern border.
"It's important to tell the public the truth so it won't be surprised," he said, "but it is also important to remember that everyone predicted massacres in Sidon after the I DF left, yet up to now it has been quiet there." (J^B, Jan. 10, 1985.)
Former Defense Minister Arens reacted to Berri's threats in a speech to a visiting group of the Moral Majority, headed by Rev. Jerry Fall-
He told the American Christian fundamentalists Israel would not surrender to Shiite terror and if necessary would crush this"l^hpmeinist phenomenon approaching our borders."
JERUSALEM — President Chaim Herzog castigated the Arab countries that criticized Israel's "splendid" rescue of Ethiopian Jews, noting that those countries could have alleviated the suffering of Palestinian refugees with "one day of oil revenues'' but they did not.
Meanwhile, the Israeli radio disclosed that the exodus of Ethiopian Jews began soon after Likud came to power-in 1977. Quoting former Begin's top aidesv the radio said even though Begin gave the matter top priority he could not publicize it.
Begin met with some of the Ethiopian immigrants and cautioned his aides. to keep quiet about the exodus despite criticism that they were allegedly neglecting the issue.
At the annual convention of the Jewish Federation in Detroit in 1980, Begin was heckled by a group of American and Canadian students who accused him of doing nothing to help black Jews. Begin kept silent, "I will not utter a word that could end this rescue operation," he told his aides. zins
JERUSALEM
Abdul
Aziz Shahin, reportedly one of th founders of the El Faiab terrorist group, was deported to Lebanon at the end of February, hours after the Supreme Court rejected hiW appeal against deportation. Shahin was > arrested in 1967 and served a: 15-year jail sentence for possession of sabotage equipment. His lawyers had claimed that deporting him to Lebanph or Jordan would endanger his: life; asked he be ■ sentto^Cyprus,-; \-'-^'-v:^.'^"?^jrA\
- Huhr dreds of Soviet Jews- have openly expressed the wish to ,. become Israeli citizens, former : Prisoner of ?ion Yosef Men-.delovich has told President Chaim Herzogi Mendelovich presented . Herzog with rhis -"new'book,  describing , his /experience in^'Spviet prison. Mendelovich said some 600 Aliy^h Activists have openly asked Israeli authorities^ |o grant them Israeli citizenship.
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TEL '^-AVIV
Israel
Defense Force is in the midst of the second stage of its with-drawalfrpm south Lebanon. Military,' sources said non-operational equipment and supplies were removed first. An IDF spokesman denied Beirut reports the departure of Israeli troops from the Bekaa valley has been speeded up. r
MIAMI.
Conservative
rabbinical assembly has welcomed three women who will become the first American Conservative rabbis. The assembly meanwhile upheld the definition of Who's a Jew; that is, to be Jewish, a person must have a Jewish mother. (yW^A Feb.2l, 1985.)
During the historic meet-iiigi Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president of Orthodox rabbinical council of America, warned: "The Jewish family, as well as Jewish identity are crucial. I plead with you to uhderistand any kind of Jewish unity depends on these two
issues.
NEWVORK — American J e w i s h J o i n t D i s t r i b u t i o n committee has anounced the U.S. government has ap-prGved an initial allocation of 7,500 metric tons of wheat flour, soy flour, non-fat dry milk and vegetable oil for JDC programs in the Gondar region of Ethiopia. According to the announcement, the JDC cart expect to receive a total of 30,000 metric tons over the next twelve months. Ralph I. Goldman, JDC Executive Vice-President, said the provisions are enough to sustain 279,000 people and have an estimated value of $5.18 million;