European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes March former nazi officer Menten is released Horn dutch prison former is officer Pieter Menten a photo the Netherlands a former nazi is officer Pieter who served six years in prison for complicity in the murders of dozens of jews in Nazio Ccu pied was freed Early Friday for Good behaviour while behind shortly after was whisked from the Schev Ningen prison in his lawyers car and taken to the Central dutch Village of where he lived until his arrest in dutch Justice ministry spokeswoman Toos Faber said Menten was released before Daybreak to avoid a Large number of journalists at the prison on the Irish government banned him from entering where he owns a 22room mansion near Leam Brien in the county of his lives there and had increased Security at the House As me tens release Date Drew although the couple divorced after his they have stayed in close me tens lawyer the dutch born Menten was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1980 in connection with the 1941 but he was released for Good behaviour after serving two thirds of his including pretrial according to the dutch Justice ailing with diabetes and a heart Menten has been in and out of the prison Hospital during his jail Ireland Justice Michael announced the ban against Menten following protests from Irish jews and politicians Over reports that he planned to take up residence at his fortified mansion in Ireland after his re nearly items called fhe most import and find in Israel Jerusalem up archaeologists probing a jul Dean desert Cave said thursday they have unearthed some of the oldest Woven flax and painted wooden carvings Ever dating years before the patriarch Abraham came to the in the last four or five i would say its perhaps the most archaeological find in Meir the vice chairman of the Israel told re the objects include an almost Complete Linen Napkin and wooden masks and beads with the paint still Bright All used during the neolithic in which archaeologists say agriculture almost years Meir said along with the dead sea scrolls and the Copper the flax textiles and painted Wood Are the Judean desert areas major archaeological the archaeologists found the objects in a 12by24foot Cave at Nahal Between the dead sea and the desert town visited by Isaac and Tamar curator of prehistory at the speculated that the objects had unknown religious we never in one found All the major cultic materials the plaster the humanize the Here Are All the objects in a Small she this is really Noy i think we have an ancient level of Strong religious and cult How they we dont she said tribal societies often used which were believed to be for storing religious Noy said biblical scholars must probe whether the objects offer any clue about religious influence on the father of the jewish who came to the area from or of the Chaldee modern Iraq about Noy said according to Carbon 14 objects in the Cave Date to 6150 to 7160 which experts say is the time of the beginning of this period was always an Enigma for Why this humanize the head of men what is the purpose we dont have Here we have additional support that these people somehow used gods or goddesses for their Noy she said that never before had Woven flax or the wooden beads and tools been found of such textiles and Wood generally we for the first the real organic she this is the first time we have the real and not we have unbelievably Beautiful material done with flax she in March a Surveyor found the Cave in a desert area with no settlements and the israeli antiquities department decided it was significant enough to undertake excavations in May and june of that they found that the Cave had sporadic use Over thou Sands of they said it probably was used As a Tempo Rary shelter by nomadic shepherds and flocks and perhaps was a Hyena Lair in later the objects were found buried in the lower two of four the museum will put about 200 of the objects on Dis play for a limited starting dec deadlocked on Portugal entry Brussels up a five Day negotiating session on the accession of Spain and Portugal to the european eco nomic Community broke up abruptly thursday at mid it was feared that the deadlock might threaten the Summit meeting of the Community Heads of government next italian foreign minister Giulio who presided Over the Marathon said he called for meetings to resume next thursday and Friday morning in an ultimate Effort to reach a dissident Kim takes Post the today gathering of Heads of governments is to Start at noon Andreotti told a news conference that the talks with Spain had almost been brought to a the two main stumbling blocks Are fisheries and he the question is How Many Spanish fishing vessels will be allowed to enter Community and How soon after and at what production level Spanish wine should be taken out of the Market for distillation into Industrial a system used by the Community to get rid of its surplus table membership negotiations with Portugal started in octo ber 1978 and with Spain in february Andreotti said in the talks with there Are still a number of Points to be he said he will meet with the Spanish finance minister Erna in next wednesday in an Effort to brine positions closer together before the thursday imposed under Section 5 of the 1935 aliens the Irish ban prohibits Menten from Landing in or entering into me tens hands Are stained with the blood of innocent women and Hes a War criminal and there can be no room for said labor party Law maker Ben a jewish Irish press reports thursday quoted me tens dutch As saying Menten was looking for an apartment or Small House in the Hague or 18 Miles East of his country Home there was set afire by arsonists in and still stands in at his third and last trial four years Menten was found guilty of complicity in the murder of some 20 to 30 jews by German is troops in the Village of then in polish eyewitnesses testified at the trial that Menten had supervised the massacre of at least 195 jews on july but none of them testified that they saw him fire any who had been living As a wealthy Recluse until when his involvement in the pod Horoce killings was exposed by dutch press has always denied the claiming they were fabricated by the the soviet secret in a dispatch from the the official soviet news Agency Tass said me tens Early release is a humiliation to All nazi Tass said that during world War Menten worked in the Lvov Region of the where hundreds of people died at the hands of the world today former West German official indicted for misuse of funds Bonn a a former government minister has been indicted on charges of misappropriating million Marks million in Public the Bonn District court said Egon who was the minister for i Tragerman relations from 1969 until was charged last april 13 with misappropriating the Money while in a social has denied the charges and said the Money was used to buy Freedom for West German agents who were jailed or threatened with prosecution in soviet bloc explosions at Swiss factory cause damage of million Switzerland a two bomb explosions ripped through a Swiss aluminium factory in this Rhone Valley town Early causing damage Esti mated by the owners at no one was in police said a previously unknown Valais group against Hydrophone claimed responsibility for the which rocked Martigny aluminium works at and 2 Hydrophone is a million project by Utility companies to harness the Rhone River for Power product police said they and the Lausanne newspaper be Matin received Anonymous Telephone Calls warning of the blasts from persons claiming to represent the British playwrights observing trial of 48 turks Istanbul a american playwright Arthur Miller and British playwright Harold Pinter showed up Here at a martial Law court trial of 48 members of the turkish peace the defendants Are accused of seeking to help establish a communist if they face jail terms of five to 15 president of the International writers association and also a pen were accompanied by Consul James Swigert and British Consul James among the defendants Are former members of University movie and theater actors and including celebrated humorist Aziz the defendants Are not under Miller and Pinter Are on a five Day fac finding visit surveying conditions and the difficulties of journalists and writers under martial which is still in Force in 23 of turkeys 67
