European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday june 3,1987 Austria detaining former nazi death Camp guard Vienna Austria a the Fate of a former nazi s5 death Camp guard was in limbo tuesday As Austri an authorities seeking to Dupon him tried to get clarification from . Officials on the status of his american citizenship. Interior minister Karl Blycha announced tuesday that Martin Bartesch had been detained As the first step toward possible deportation after arriving in aus Tria Friday. He was arrested late monday. Blycha said on state radio that Justice authorities have begun an inquiry to establish whether Bart Schwa involved in War comes. Bartoseh s arrest was the Only option after Reading news reports from the United stain about his activities As a nazi concentration Camp guard in Austria Blecha said. Neither austrian nor . Officials have clarified whether Bane sch still holds . Citizenship. But Inte rior ministry officials said Bartesch would be tried in Austria on any charges arising from his wartime activities if he no longer is an american National. Bart sch told austrian authorities during question ing that his . Citizenship was revoked at the end of april during a trial according to an Interior ministry statement tuesday. Bartesch said he was told to leave the United slates by May 27, according to the statement. He said . Authorities allowed him to keep his passport but or dered him to turn it Over to . Officials in Vienna by june. Near Sher head of the . Office of special investigations the Justice department s nazi Hunting unit said in Washington last week that a District court judge issued an order de naturalizing Bartesch effective last Friday. Sher said Bartesch signed a sealed agreement a month ago admitting that he was a guard at Austria Smau Hausen concentration Camp in 1943 and 1944, in a death Book compiled by the operators of the Camp Battesch is listed As shooting a French jew to death in 1943, Sher said. Interior ministry officials said they asked for clarification from the . Embassy on whether Bartesch s citizenship had been revoked. Embassy officials said they arc trying to get information from the United states. Ministry spokesman Karl Newole told he a that if Bartesch has Tost his american citizenship Austria will a Phou Heinz Burteh bold picture or himself and he Otto Martin Barlesch Ukon but week in Austria. Consult the United slates about whether . Authorities will take Bartesch Back Blycha said no bilateral deportation agreement exists Between the United states and Austria. Newole monday said Bartesch applied for Permis Sion to emigrate to Austria at the consulate in Chicago in april. Austrian authorities granted him permission after . Police assured them he had a clean record. World today 49 who abandoned tour expected to seek Asylum Munich a forty two poles and seven czechoslovak abandoned their Lour groups in Germany and Are expected to seek political Asylum Over the next few Days. State Border police in Bavaria said monday that the 49 came from various polish and. Czechoslovak Lour groups and had disappeared Over the weekend most of them in Nuernberg the missing East europeans probably Willarc port to police in Nuernberg or Munich to seek Asylum police said. Woman has cake Sherry to Mark 114th birthday Swansea Wales a How do you Cele brate your birthday when you be done in 113 times before Anna Eliza Williams believed to be the oldest person in the world had cake and Sherry when she turned 114 tuesday William who lives at the Tuxedo old peo ple s Home in Swansea was born on june 2,1873. Withams eats lots of vegetables refuses Al medicines and a never smoked the nursing Home says. 13 years of work end by Accident in shredder Stockholm Sweden api a swedish business consultant has decided to try to piece together his 250-Page Book manuscript thai was accidentally ripped into 50,000 trips of paper newspaper has reported. Ulfat Trolle worked for 13 years on the boo about ways to solve economic troubles in swed ish companies he afro bladet daily said. Refinished his work in april. An employee at a firm that was to copy the manuscript confused a copy machine with a shredder and of Trolle was informed a few weeks ago that the work had been sliced into thousands of thin strips of paper. Avlon Blacl said of Trolle has hired on Undis closed number of youngsters to try to piece to Gether the paper strips mathematicians quoted by the newspaper said the re creation could take years Brunei seeks return of $10 million Contra donation Geneva a the Sultan of Bru Nei is seeking the return of a so million donation for nicaraguan rebels that was mistakenly deposited in the account of a wealthy Swiss businessman a Geneva investigating judge said. Vladimir Stemberger the judge who ordered the funds Frozen said monday that the Sultan s Bank in Zurich told him b formal request is expected shortly. Credit suisse discovered last month after a probe by . Investigators that the mistaken Deposit took place Ai its Geneva Branch last August. It found the businessman had moved the Money to another Geneva Bank where it gained $253,000 in interest the funds were blocked after credit suisse filed suit against the businessman who was not identified and tie renounced All claims to the Money and in Terest according to Stemberger no one immediately stepped Forward to claim the Money which Stemberger last week described As a found Joerg it of a credit suisse spokes Man has said Switzerland s third largest Bank would withdraw its criminal Law suit Only after the rightful owner is deter mined. He said the Bank otherwise fears losing control of the funds. I i is Only because of our suit that they were Frozen he said in an interview last week. Stumberger has said the business Anis believed to have acted in Good Faith in not questioning the Deposit because be often handled Large amounts of Money. Discovery of the missing millions was announced May 13 by sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the Spe Cial Senate panel investigating the Iran Contra affair. He said the Brunei Money was the last substantial donation to the contras unaccounted it was located by con Gressional investigators who travelled to Switzerland Earl last month. Mark Bdnick a Senate staff employee said the Money reached the wrong destination apparently because the cred it suisse account number Given to the Sultan by assistant Secretary of stale Elliott Abrams last August had the prefix 368 instead of 386. Abrams had asked the Sultan sir has Sanol Bol Kiah ruler of the Oil Rich Island state in Southeast Asia for a donation to the contras at a Lime when the rebels were barred from receiving , govern ment funds. The Sultan s personal Weall his said to total s4 billion. Abrams requested the donation be channelled into a credit suisse account compiled by la col. Oliver North Thena National Security Council aide. Strike bogs Down British Columbia s Economy Vancouver British Columbia up More than 200,000 workers shut Down the Economy of can Ada s third largest province monday in a 24-hour Gen eral strike to protest government plans to Cul Ibe Power of organized labor. Pickets hit every sector of the Economy in a massive display of anger Over legislation to unit strike Power and restrict wage hikes government officer., courthouses newspapers mines logging operations pulp Mills liquor stores movie Heaters libraries fish processing plants construction Sites and unionized bars and restaurants were Ciul by the British Columbia federation of labor. The umbrella group representing 230,000 workers in 500 Union locals across the West coast province was joined by several non affiliated unions. Labor spokesmen said the strike was enjoying widespread support but it was impossible to put accurate numbers on those participating. From All the reports we re getting in appears every thing is going according to plan British Columbia federation of labor president Ken Giorgetti said. The strike was provoked by a provincial govern ment Bill expected to be passed into Law by the end of the week that Georgetti called a direct attack unorganized it would empower an Uncle cited com missioner to end strikes or lockouts he deemed contrary to the Public interest ii also would restrict wage increases to Public sector employees outlaw secondary Boycotts known As hoi edicts and allow employers 10 establish non Union subsidiaries to skirt collective agreements. British Columbia Premier Bill Vander Zalm who introduced the legislation has insisted his government would not be pressured into withdrawing in. Vander Zalm denounced the strike As illegal but said there in t much we can do to Stop it. He appealed for Calm Heads to prevail and accused Union Bosses of trying to blackmail his government. The Bill was introduced to stabilize the Stormy labor climate in Canada s most unionized province where last year the Economy lost 12 billion Whan 30,000 woodworkers shut Down the Forest Industry for 17weeks. Economists estimated the strike will Cost workers 125 million in lost wages while employers would lose millions More in revenues. A spokesman for the prov Ince s giant Forest Industry said that sector alone would lose $20 million in revenues
