European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 26,1988 the stars and stripes Page 3demjcmjuk sentenced to die App Toto John demo Anink is brought into the courthouse in a wheelchair to hear his sentence. Jerusalem a an Israel court monday sentenced John Domjan Juk to be executed for War crimes Corn milled As Ivan inc  a sadistic a i guard who ran Gas Chambers where about 800.000 jews died. He was a chief Hangman who. With his own hands killed Lens of thousands Wilh cruelty. We sentence him to  said judge Zvi Tal. Onlookers clapped arid shouted As the sentence was announced. Some chanted.  others shouted death  last week the court convicted the 6s year old retired Ohio Auto worker of nazi War crimes. It said he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of jews at the Tryb Linka concentration Camp in occupied Poland. About 800.000 jews died in 1942 and 1943, when Ivan worked at the Camp. Only one Man has Ever been executed in Israel s 40-year history. Adolf Eichmann architect of the holocaust was hanged in1962. Do Manjuk attended monday s sentencing in a wheelchair complaining of Bac problems. He entered the courtroom moments before the verdict was read shouting in hebrew i am  a Christian he was seen making the sign of the Cross and whispering to himself apparently praying during arguments from prosecutors who demanded the death penalty after the verdict he was wheeled away expressionless and ringed by riot police. Do Manjuk s lawyers have said they will Appeal his conviction to the supreme court. The verdict followed a trial that lasted 14 months. Tal s statement after three hours of Judi Cial deliberation Drew applause and whistling from hundreds of israelis in the Audi ence including survivors of the world War ii holocaust. Several Hundred onlookers had crowded into the converted movie theater to hear the verdict. Earlier longtime observers said they expected the death penalty because of inc sweeping Guilly verdict which Dis counted each defense argument. There is no forgiveness in the Law or the heart holocaust victims arc still crying out to  said Tal. Who was bom in Poland. Even a thousand deaths cannot com  do Manjuk s son 22-year-old John jr., said his family had expected a death sentence. It amounts to nothing less than the Judi Cial murder of an innocent  he  will bring shame to the state of Israel the israeli Justice department. Inc . Justice department and most unfortunately. Inc 6millioni victims of the nazi  earlier in the Day his father told the three judge panel it was making a very very very big  "1 am not Ivan the terrible and to that god is inc most just witness. He knows i am innocent do Manjuk told the court Mon Day. He spoke in ukrainian. The court adjourned briefly after dam Manjuk spoke to allow the judges time to consider the arguments. The defense also had pleaded against Adeath sentence. There is also a question of an individual s holocaust said defense at Torney John Gill of Cleveland. The taking of any innocent human life is a holocaust opening the proceedings monday prosecutor Yona Blattman told the three judges that do Manjuk was not a Small cog in the nazi machine he was a major criminal an Arch Henchman. He committed the most heinous acts with his very own hands kill ing tens of thousands with unspeakable  we maintain the Only punishment Hal can be imposed on the accused is the death penalty Blattman argued. Gill said the conviction could be shown at a later Date to have been incorrect and he cited previous wrongful convictions. The problem with the death penalty he wid is that it is in fact  nazi War crimes and terrorism arc the Only offences punishable by death in the jewish state. Mitterrand Chirac gear up for Runoff election Paris a conservative Premier Jacques Chirac monday embarked on the formidable task of piecing together a fragmented right to face incumbent socialist president Francois Mitterrand in the presidential Runoff May 8. Mitterrand who is seeking a second seven year term received the most votes in first round of balloting on sunday. In a Brief statement Mitterrand said on sunday now inc Choice is simple. To All of you who serve France we have great tasks before us. Let us rally together neglecting no Effort to win May 8." Chirac a 55-year-old no gaullist who finished second and Raymond Baric 64, a former Center right Premier who finished third appeared on television after the polls closed sunday and pledged to work together. I support him in his fight said Baric and i ask All those who voted for Rue to vote for him in the second  however Barre did not write Chirac a Blank Check. "1 count on him to defend the objectives to which we Are particularly attached an open and tolerant society that rejects xenophobia racism an extremism Baric said. His comments were aimed at the candidate of inc extreme right Jean Marie la pen who finished just behind Barrand whose endorsement could be a key to a Chirac Victory. La pen. President of the National from won 14.5 percent of the vote Well above predictions. His Campaign speeches included Calls for deporting immigrants and quarantining victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. U pen 59, said he will Tell his sup porters at a rally on sunday How to vote on May 8. With 98 percent of the Vole counted on sunday the 71-year-old Mitterrand had33.9 percent ahead of Chirac who with 19.9 percent did not do As Well As expected. Barre was third with 16.6 percent a Telephone poll conducted by state run and conc 2 television after the results were announced showed Hal Mitterrand would defeat Chirac in the Runoff win Ning 55 percent of inc vote. The communist party once a significant political Force slumped to its lowest score in party history with Andre Lajoi Nie getting 6.8 percent. Rounding out the nine candidate Field were Antoine watch tar an ecologist with 3.8 percent Pierre Juquinn Leader of a splinter communist reformist group,2.1 percent Arlette a Aguillar head of the trotskyist worker struggle movement 2 percent and Pierre to Ussel Leader of an other trotskyist group 0.4 percent. Turn out by France s 38 milion voters was More than 82 percent on the issues Bolh candidates support an open Economy and want to improve France s education system spending More on technical training and research. On foreign and defense policies Bolh speak of the need for France to become More involved in Europe s defences. Kuwait to form 100-member anti terrorist squad Kuwait a Kuwait Slung by the hijacking of one of its jumbo jets by shiite moslem extremists will hire foreign experts to train a special anti terrorist squad to combat sky pirates Security officials said monday. The sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the planned 100-Mcmbcr Force will be attached Lothe Interior ministry after a six month training pro Gram in Kuwait and abroad. They gave no other details and did not identify the foreign specialists. Most Western european countries including Brit Ain. France Italy and West Germany have elite units which have been in action against terrorists Over the last 20 years. Gen. Ulrich wig incr. Commander of West Ger Many s crack Gsg-9 anti terrorist Force disclosed last month that he will train a saudi arabian Force. He headed the Gsg-9 Force that stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner in Mogadishu Somalia in 1977, considered a classic anti Hijack operation. The kuwaiti and saudi moves came amid growing fears in the iwo conservative Gulf states along with their neighbors of subversion by pro iranian Shi Ilc moslem that has been fanned by the 7 i year old Iran Iraq War. Tehran charges that the two countries Aid Iraq. Shiite extremists hijacked the Kuwait airways Boe ing 747 Wilh 112 people aboard april 5 As it was flying from Bangkok to Kuwait before the 16-Day drama ended in Algiers last wednesday the gunmen had killed two kuwaiti passengers. Kuwait s Cabinet on sunday set up a committee to investigate the hijacking said hashed Abdul Aziz Rashed. Minister of stale for Cabinet affairs. The team will be headed by Justice minister Shari Abdullah Othman and will include non government figures he said sunday. Rashed insisted that murdering the two kuwaiti passengers is a crime that will not go  the right Wing Al Scassa daily and the Radical Al Rai Al Aam daily reported monday that kuwaiti Secu Rity authorities aided by unidentified foreign Intelli gence agencies have identified the hijackers. They did not elaborate. In an apparent reference to Iran and the pro iranian Lebanon based Hezbollah or party of god Rashed told Al Scassa that certain Powers and parties hostile to the arabs were behind the  the shiite fundamentalist Hezbollah is believed to be the umbrella group for shiite factions holding most of the 21 foreign hostages in Lebanon. The longest held is Terry Anderson 40. Chief mid dle East correspondent of the associated press. He was kidnapped by gunmen March 16,1985. The Emir of Kuwait Sheik Jaber Ahmed Sabah said in a television and radio address saturday that the hijackers were phantoms who sprang from the dark Ness and returned to the