BONN — Spurred by world public opiniouj West Germany's Parliament last w^^ Statute of Limitations on murder. The action allows officials to continue hunting Nazi war criminals indefinitely..
The ^ote — which effectively closed the books on one of Wiest Germany's longest and most painful national debates— was 253-228 in favor of abolishing the 30-year statute/Had the Bundestag delegates not taken this course of action, Nazi era murderers who have so far remained undetected would have escaped prosecution after pec. 31.
Only moments beiforethis vote, which took place on the second parliamentary reading of the bill, the Bundestag had rejected another proposal to allow for the continued prosecution of Nazi-era war
On the first vote, 460-21 with one abstention, the Bundestag had turned down a proposal by former Interior Minister Werner Maihofer under which the Statute of Limitations would have remained on the lawbooks for murders other than those connected with war crimes or genocide.
The relatively conservative Free Democrats and Christiah Democrats were responsible for providing most of the support for retaining the Statute of Limitations, which would have come into effect on Jan. 1. ^ Many niembers of the Social Deniocrats, led by Chancellor Helniut Schmidt, opposed the limitation. '
tijOMJ0sn^ wha was opposed to extending the limit.
did notundefstand it, was issued by a prominent Christian Democrat, Alois Mertes, a defense specialist
Interior fkHinister Yosef Biirg, at the Jerusateih JNaza hoteirst^ in his honor: ^'Wereafiirm that we have tommdn goals. 1 fully understand that tfae^^ aire areas of friction,
time." He spent three days in Israel, later visiting jn Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia
He Stated:-"We cannot bow down to the ignorance of the American public. A Statute of Limitations
Six million of Europe's 8.3 milUon Jews were amongst the estimated 11 million people methodically
before returning to the U.S.
(JerusalemPost) murdered by the Nazis.
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Nazi rally proiiibiteci
VIENNA — A rally by the Austrian neo-Nazi organization, Aktion Neue Rechte, was prohibited by authorities.
JERUSALEM - Syria has ordered its air force to intercept henceforth all Israeli flights over Lebanon.
The move follows an incident last week in which Israel Air Force jets shot down five Syrian M1G-2I interceptors in an air battle over south Lebanon, the first since the Yom Kippur War. The Syrian planes were engaged in the area of Sidon when they tried to intervene against ah Israeli air strike on terrorists targets.
The Syrian government news^ paper A-Thawra said that the disptach of the MIGs to intercept Israeli jets was neither a "temporary nor a casual" decision. The remark
was seen by observers as dispelling any doubt that Syria had taken a formal decision on combating Israeli warpianes attacking terrorist bases in Lebanon.
Lebanon reportedly is seeking U.S. pressure to stop Israeli airraids in its territory.
The Syrians put their entire air defence system on alert following the incident and pledged to protect the ^skies of Lebanon, where Damascus has some 25,000 troops policing a 31-month-old civil war truce between Lebanon's Christians and an alliance combining the Palestine
CANADA
Liberation Organiz^jtipji and that country's leftist groupings.
Officials in Beirut Msaid that Lebanese President Ellas Sarkis fears that a recurrence pf last week's air battles betvyeen Israel and Syria over Lebanon could ignite a fifth Middle East war,
Lebanese authorities apparently fear that the Syrians may move into Lebanon some of their Soviet-made missile batteries and deploy MIG-23s and MIG-27s to cpuiiter Israel's U.S.-made F-15s, which tpbk part in
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crpwded iim stltipn to have been thwarted when the bomb exploded prematurely, killing instantly two occupants of a van conveying it to bus station.
VISA* PROCEDURES
JERUI^ALEM — A system whereby Israelis and Egyptians will be able to obtain visas to visit each other's countries was agreed to d uring Foreign M inister M dshe ^ Dayan's talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo.
DAYAM BETTER
JERUSALEM — Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Foreign Mihiister, was resting comfortably in hospital after an operation to remove a non-malignant growth from his intestinal tract.
'he weeks go by slowly for three Moscow Jews sentenced to )ng prison terms for wanting to leave the country.
i NUMBER OF WEEKS
ALREADY SUFFERING THE GULAG ORDEAL:
3: -je Helsinki Agreement which the Soviet government signed
P lows for freedom of emigration. Let our voices — letters,
r* ^. jegrams and phone calls — express our protest to-Western
^ jders to intercede and to the Soviets to set them free.
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Ambassador AnatoEy Dobrynin, Embassy off the USSR, 1125 16th Street, ^ Washington, D.C. 20036.
JACK DIAMOND, well-known Vancouver community leader, businessman and sportsman, is one of 62 persons in the nation named last week to the prestigious Order of Canada. See story -page?.