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World & Nation Page 6 The Battalion Monday, March 23, WWII archives attract skepticism LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nazi hunters sifting Russian, European and Argentine archives to unmask aging war criminals in the United States fear the newly available dossiers will ultimately serve his tory, but not justice. Investigators are poring over archives throughout Eastern Eu rope and in provincial capitals in the former Soviet Union that were off-limits during the Cold War. And last month, Argentine President Carlos Menem released files to the Los Angeles-based Si mon Wiesenthal Center about Nazis who fled to Argentina after World War II. What researchers are finding will add detail to Nazi atrocities and the fate of thousands who dis appeared in the Holocaust. But the archives may be of limited use to prosecutors. "We must move with dispatch, because time is against justice," said Martin Mendelsohn, legal counsel to the Wiesenthal Center and former chief of the Justice De- Nazi hunters claim evidence benefits history, not justice partment's Nazi-hunting unit. Brewster Chamberlin, archives director of the new United States Holocaust Museum in Washing ton, has microfilmed documents in Latvia, Moscow, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and eastern Ger many. The museum will have 1 million documents on the Holo caust when it opens next year. Included are faded pho tographs, yellowed papers, records on Nazi death squads, population counts for Jewish ghet tos and concentration camps, transportation orders and nota tions on the sale of Jewish property. The archives also promise to shed light on the fate of Gypsies, resistance fighters, Jehovah's Wit nesses and others persecuted in Central and Eastern Europe, Chamberlin said. But, he said: "The fate or des tiny of those who participated generally is not shown unless they were killed in carrying out their horrid duties." Allan Ryan Jr., a former chief of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, esti mates 10,000 war criminals, in cluding prison guards, their supe riors and collaborators, were among 400,000 refugees who came to the United States between 1948 and 1952. Since it was founded in 1979, the office has obtained orders to deport only 30 alleged war crimi nals from the United States. Prose cutions by the office based on the new information are unlikely, Ryan said. "The trail grows cold. Witness es die," said Ryan, now a Harvard University attorney. "Cases that could be made in 1950 can't be made (today). And the burden of proof against the government is very high." The office refuses to comment on its hundreds of active cases. In February, Wiesenthal inves tigators got hold of Argentine files on Nazis who fled there after the war, including Josef Mengele. The "Angel of Death" at the Auschwitz concentration camp is believed to have died in Brazil in 1979. The files have yet to provide information on possible criminals in the United States, acknowl edged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, dean of the Wiesenthal Center. But Menem's decision to make them public nonetheless has had a significant effect. "Every time you have a his toric move by someone like Presi dent Menem, it takes the wind out of the sails of the Holocaust de- niers," Cooper said. The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: Room 015 (basement) Reed McDonald Building Arabs ask U.N. to help settle extradition crisis AGGIE’WANT ADS $ 10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchan dise is priced $ 1000 or less (price must appear in ad). For private individuals, not businesses. Guar anteed results or you get an additional 5 days at no charge. 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G&S Studies • 846-5933 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Arab foreign ministers on Sunday turned down Libya's request that they ignore sanctions Western countries have threatened to ap ply against Libya in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The foreign ministers, repre senting the 21-member Arab League, instead urged the United Nations to solve the dispute through mediation. The December 1988 bombing killed 270 people. The United States and Britain are demanding the extradition of two Libyans in dicted in the case. Libya's refusal to hand over the two officials alleged to have been involved in the bombing has sparked increasing tensions. The United States, France, Ger many, Switzerland, Greece and Italy have urged their citizens in Libya to leave. Winding up its emergency ses sion Sunday, the Arab League ministers adopted a resolution calling on the U.N. Security Coun cil to "avoid taking any economic, military or diplomatic measures that could have negative conse quences on the region." The resolution said the council should await the outcome of an International Court of Justice ap peal filed by Libya on March 3. The ministers reaffirmed their condemnation of all forms of ter rorism and "welcomed Libya's readiness to cooperate with any international efforts to end this phenomenon." They promised to exert efforts on all levels to avert any threats against Libya and try to solve the problem through peaceful means. List of campaign promises stretches as election nears NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ~ Politicians axe usually adept a: promising voters what they want to hear. Qritics may call it paiv dering, but it has become part of every campaign. This year, fe promises list is long and growing. Democratic front-runner Bill Clinton, campaigning across Gin* necticut for Tuesday's primary, has criticized the Bush administra tion for moving to scrap contracts for the Sea wolf submarine, buil! in Groton. That seems to conflict with Clinton's general call for cuts in de fense spending. But the cut, contained in Bush's budget, would suit in the layoffs of thousands of Connecticut workers and has be come an emotional political issue. Former Sen Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, before he with drew' from the race last week, criticized Clinton for "pandering"to Connecticut voters and suggested that the submarine would be killed under any post-Cold War program. "It is not pandering," Clinton insisted Sunday on NBCs"Mee: the Press." He said he had consulted with "a wide range of defense advisers" before deciding to favor the submarine. He said Bush's proposal to kill the Seawolf was "a clear exam pie of his insensitivity . . . he's going to throw all those people on the street." Former California Gov. Jerry Brown has also attacked Clinton on the Seawolf issue as he wages his own unconventional cam paign here. He told a rally that the odds of Clinton actually pre serving Seawolf if he were elected is "about the same as his select ing (Connecticut Sen.) Joe Lieberman for vice president." Of course, in the promises department, Brown does not do se badly himself. After a campaign rally in Bridgeport, a supporter asked Brown if he would "reopen the investigation of the assassination of JFKso we can really find out who killed our president?" Brown paused a moment, then said: "Yeah. Sure. That's aneasi one. And in the "pandering" department, it is Browm who wore a United Auto Workers windbreaker throughout his Michigan cam paign. Qinton has accused Brown of "reinventing himself' through the years. President Bush, who has the highest profile of any candidate for broken campaign promises with his abandoned "no new taxes' pledge, is no slacker in the pandering department this campaigr season. He had been announcing a string of federal programs that ben efit primary states before he finally all but flattened GOP chal lenger Patrick Buchanan in last week's Michigan primary. Thus, when he was in Oklahoma earlier this month he an nounced a program to help the oil and gas industry. And, later, a few days before last week's Michigan primary, he announced a regulatory relief program for the auto industry. Campaign officials have even been sending "pander patrol' aides to brief reporters and to explain why federal largess b« stowed by Bush on key primary states is really completely, wholly, utterly nonpolitical. Sometimes, even the politicians aren't quite sure of whether they've been pandering or not. 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Even though few want the country to disin tegrate, Czechs and Slovaks are on a path that could lead them there, and they seem to lack the will to get off. Months of meetings have produced only confusion, paralysis and foreboding. Communication is minimal. Czechs and Slovaks rarely buy each other's newspapers or watch each other's television, and report sen sationally on the other's affairs. June elections appear crucial, but the two men likely to win in their regions are as differ ent from each other as from the high-minded Havel. Vaclav Klaus, the federal finance minister, is a conservative Czech economist. The Slovak leader, Vladimir Meciar, is a populist. There also are enormous differences be tween the 10 million Czechs and five million Slovaks. Czech traditions embrace 15th century Hussite Protestantism, early industrial devel opment, Franz Kafka and Havel, the dissident playwright who became president. Slovaks have known only outside domina tion. 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