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VANCOUVER,
10, 1967
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NO TIME LIMIT FOR TRIALS
-tlENEVA — The United j States delegation to the United jNations Coinmission on Hu-jm^ Rights, currently in ses-Ision here, announced that it Iwill introduce an amendment a draft U.N. Convention, )arring statutes of limitations for all time on the prosecution l^d trial of war criminals and crimes against humanity in-T(Av\ng  "major"   cases of charges of murder.
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West Germany and Austria
seek to extradite Stangl
BONN—The chief prosecutor of
Dusseldorf has requested Brazi
to extradite Franz Paul Stangl,
former commandant of Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps who was arrested in Sao Paulo,
FRANZ FACI. STANGL
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iourns jiossing >f Irvin Ui
One of the Community's lead-g Zionist workers, Irvin Lip-, passed away suddenly Feb. in Vancouver General hos-tal.
Born 50 years ago in Winni-ig, Manitoba, he came to Van-uver with his family while he as in his early teens.
Mr. Lipsky was vice-president Rowan Steel Ltd.
A  long-standing  member of hai B'rith and of Schara Tze-ck synagogue, he received the LT. Men's Club award in 1957 Father of the Year.
Mr. Lipsky was known as an |2tive U.J.A. supporter and was o former executive commit-e member of Richmond Country ub. >
I Past regional vice-president of e Zionist Organization of Brit-
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SYRIA RENEGINO
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —
Israel complained to the Security Council that Syria is reneging on its "unconditional" agreemeiit to participate in discussing an "agreed agenda" in the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission, resorting instead to a "fog" of propaganda coupled with further incitements against Israel's sovereignty.
The , ISMAC session, originally summoned by Secretary-General U Thant, has been in suspension for several weeks, due to Syria's refusal to stick to the single point on the agenda — the cultivation of farm lands in the demilitarized zones on the Israeli-Syrian frontiers.
IRVIN LIPSKY
YOUTH AUYAH DRIVE CUM AX NEXT TUESDAY
The annual Youth Aliyah Luncheon, unofficial harbinger of Spring, is the culmination of the Women's Youth Aliyah Campaign. It will be held next Tuesday, March 14, in the new British Columbia room of the Hotel Van-, couver at 12 noon.
Highlighting the program will be the delightful musical Odyssey, "From Shtet'l to Broadway", created and performed by Norman Atkins, renowned radio, TV and opera singer from New York.
There will be many interesting door prizes, compliments of Linden Stone Ltd., Camille Hat Shop, Mr. Roberts Ltd., International Textiles and Jackson Agencies. Table favors are compliments of Life Savers Ltd., Rotlmians of Pall Mall and Exclusive Brand Imports, Toronto.
Reservations for the luncheon are still being taken by calling Mrs. Marvin Mandleman, 263-6438.
Bulletin News Digest
Brazil, last week. Austria made a request for the extradition of Stangl and started proceedings over the weekend.
A spokesman for the West Ger man Foreign Ministry said tha although there is no extradition treaty between Brazil   and Wes Germany,   "it is expected that the request   will   b e s y m pa t h e t i c a 11 y considerec by   the Govern ment   of Brazil Stangl was an Austrian policeman before World War II but i was pointed out that his war crimes  were   committed under Hitler's rule.
Franz Stangl, the long-sought Nazi who is charged with the responsibility of killing 700,000 Jews in the Nazi death camps , of Treblinka and Sobibor, is being held under maximum security detention in Brasilia, Federal Security Police there revealed.
The Brazilian Federal Police is especially interested in finding out if he knows about other for-
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hiding in Brazil. Stangl had lived quietly with his w:ife and two daughters in Brazil, imder an assumed name, since 1951. He worked,as an automobile mechanic in a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo.
Stangl was traced by Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna. Stangl, who fled from an Aus-;rian prisoner-of-war camp in 1948, is on a list of missing war criminals issued by the Austrian government in 1962. Evaristo de Morais Filho, a Brazilian lawyer retained by Treblinka survivors now living in Israel, will assist Austria in her extradition proceeding's.
The extradition request must be considered by the Brazilian Supreme Court within 60 days. Under Brazilian law, a prisoner can be kept under custody for that period.
The Brazilian file on Stangl indicated he had been born in Austria on March 26, 1908 and joined the Gestapo and rose from informer to captain in charge of construction o f concentration camps at Treblinka and Sobibor and later commanded both camps. Stangl ranked only behind Mar-
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tin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, and Lt. Gen. Heinrich MuUer, head of the SS, on the list of "most wanted" Nazi criminals.
Simon Wiesenthal, whose office has been credited with tracking down the late Adolf Eichmann, leading to the lat-ter*s apprehension in Argentina and his subsequent sentencing to death and execution in Israel, said he first was offered Stangl's address in 1964 by a former member of the Nazi secret police. The informant, whose name was not revealed by Mr. Wiesenthal, first asked  $25,000  for providing StangPs address. Later, according to Mr. Wiesenthal, the informant reduced his price to "2 cents for every man, woman and child killed" under Stangl's responsibility. After further bargaining,  the informant agreed to reveal the address at a price of 1 cent per victim. Since Stangl had been responsible for an estimated 700,000 deaths, he was promised a payment of $7,000 upon Stangl's arrest.
Mr. Wiesenthal's "wanted" list of Nazi war criminals still includes 22,000 names.
ih^^llsUid tt^ ivherie he' lis visiiihg a daiiigriiter, the Jewish ''Nazi tracker'% Siinon Wiesenthal, said that he ex^ pected the arrest soon of another "important Nazi" in South America. He stated that an organization of former war crun-inais exists and is engaged in efforts to assist former Nazis. Mr. Wiesenthal noted he suspects the organization has "good connections with diplomats in South America."
Jobless allowance
JERUSALEM — Severe unemployment resulted in approval last week by the Israel Cabinet of regulations for payments of jobless allowances as well as classifications of Israeli unemployed entitled to receive the payments.
Conversions
JERUSALEM — Some 200 Israeli rabbis together with the two Chief Rabbis and the Religious Affairs Minister, expressed grave concern over missionary activities in Israel which convert some 200 each year and are now exploiting the economic situation to obtain conversions.
Ebon tours
-Foreign Minister presently on a seven country tour of Southeast Asia which will take him to Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Japan, Cambodia and Burma.
Physicists meet
TEL AVIV — Over 200 of the world's leading physicists concluded a five-day meet at the Rehovot Weizmann Institute. Represented at the Second International Conference on Physics and Nuclear Structure were the Soviet Union, United States, West Germany, East Germany, Iceland, South Africa, France, Sweden, India, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Italy.
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TEL AVIV
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HEHOVOT
for nuclear
— Six. instruments physics research
donated by Weizmann Institute of Science to Huile Selassie University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, left last week from Eliat aboard the S.S. Netzanct. The instruments, two pulse generators, two linear amplifiers and two scalers, were manufactuied in Weizmann Institute's' workshops for their nuclear physics department.
COHEN, ROTHSTEIN ARE VJ.A. VICE-CHAIRMEN
TED COHEN
NORMAN ROTHSTEIN
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PROMINENT COMMUNITY LEADERS, Ted Cohen and Norman tothstein, have assumed vice-chairmenship of this year's U.J.A. Campaign, it was annomneed this week by Sidney Zack, campaign chairman. Mr. Zack has stated that the achievement of Vancouver's goal, $345,000, is essential in order for the Community to bear a greater share of the burden of immigration costs and absorption. "Israel is beset by tremendous economic pressures, and is unable to continue to bear two thirds of the costs for immigration as she has done heretofore," he stated, adding, "Jews in the free world must carry a greater share of responsibility for rescue and rehabilitation of Jews in need." Mr. Zack went on to point out that at the end of 1966 there were 96,000 unemployed persons in Israel out of a total labor force of 857,000. The economic difficulties of the State are forcing the Israelis to reduce further their standard of living, to transfer service work into production work, and to raise the countiT's productivity. **There is hunger in Israel," Mr. Zack stated, "and for the first time since its establishment, 'the dole'—
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