European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday june 11, 1992 prosecutors trying to link Demjan Juk to 2nd Camp world Jerusalem a Jolin Domjan Juke a Appeal of his conviction As a holocaust Gas chamber operator ended tuesday with judges questioning the defense on whether he was a guard at another death Camp. Demjan Juk a native ukrainian who moved to the United states after the War is appealing his conviction As a Ivan the terrible of the Treblinka death Camp maintaining he was wrongly identified. The prosecution argues that even if the supreme court overturns his conviction it has shown that dam in Njuki was a guard at sob ibor Poland and that this alone would make him guilty of genocide. Judge Minachem Elon on tuesday pressed the defense on that Point. A fall of sob ibor and Treblinka were created to kill 3,000 people every Day. They sent guards there. What did the guards do there. This is the definition of genocide a Elon said. But defense attorney Yoram shift cd said any sob ibor evidence is irrelevant because the . Order extraditing Demjan Juk a former Cleveland autoworkers says he must be tried for a specific deeds by Ivan the terrible at Treblinka. _ t Here was no indication when the five judges might Rule. If they reverse the Treblinka conviction they also could Rule on whether Demjan Juk should be tried on other charges or released. Demjan Juk 72, sat through most of the six Days of summation listening to a ukrainian translation through headphones. But on tuesday he asked Sheftel to remind the court that when he listed sob ibor on his 1948 . Visa application As one of the places he had been during the War he meant the town of Sambor. Dema Njuki a son John jr., told reporters that the mistake was made because his father cannot write in English and someone else had filled out the visa application. _ Sheftel argued that depositions by Treblinka guards who said Ivan the terrible was a Man named Ivan Marchenko mean the High court should reverse Dema Njuki a conviction. Quot it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Appellant sitting Here. Is not Ivan the terrible a an officer escorts convicted nazi War criminal John Demjan Juk into the israeli supreme court on tuesday. Sheftel said. The depositions were made in nazi War crimes trials in the soviet Union in the 1940s through 1960s. Demjan Juk was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to death. The verdict was based on the testimony of five Treblinka survivors who identified him As the Man they knew As Ivan the terrible a guard who tormented his victims on their Way to death. European to news network launched Lyon France a europeans on tuesday signed an Accord to create an All news television network similar to Cable news network of the United Stales that will begin broadcasting in five languages starting in january. Eleven european Public broadcasting organizations Are taking part in the venture called eur news. They signed the Accord in the Southern French City of Lyon where eur news will have its Headquarters. The founding organizations include Tref of Belgium Cylc of Cyprus Vertu of Egypt rave of Spain Yle of Finland Antenne 2 and fr3 of France Ert of Greece Rai of Italy tic of Monte Carlo and Ftp of Portugal. Eur news will be broadcast in English French German italian and Spanish. It will be available to 23 million households in its first year. It was not immediately Clear whether the eur news signal would be available on a commercial or Cable basis but one senior official said that in France eur news would seek to use a commercial frequency left vacant by a network that went off the air in april. It will use footage from various television networks adding its own commentary. Massimo Fichera vice director of Italy s Public network Rai was designated As president of eur news editorial Council. Quot this is a major event. In the european audiovisual scene until now the Domain of the private sector a Fichera said at a news conference. Quot the passage of the Public sector across Borders assures the perpetuation of a mixed system. The future is no longer the exclusive territory of the private sector but of a  eur news will be completely free of countries political interests Fichera said. Heric Bourges president and director of France s two Public to networks said eur news was born in part out of can s dominating coverage of the persian Gulf War. Europeans saw Only the images of the War a that american censorship let through a he said. He expressed regret that Germany was not participating in eur news. A without them eur news will exist but with them ii would be much stronger a Bourges said. He did not say Why Germany was not taking part although German television is taking part in a joint project with France to provide cultural evening programming on the Channel left vacant by Frances la Cine network. Youths rampage in 2 French cities Paris apr for two straight Days youths from poor neighbourhoods in two cities have hurled firebombs and overturned cars in rioting sparked by allegations of racial violence and police brutality. Violence flared in Argenteuil Northwest of Paris after a 19-year-old Man of arabic origin was fatally stabbed saturday by another Man apparently during a drug Deal. Police who said the victim had a criminal record reported that about 100 youths went on a rampage demanding that the attacker be brought to Justice. In the Bourgogne Section of Tourcoing near the belgian Border about 200 rioters angered Over alleged police brutality threw firebombs and burned cars. Police said the alleged brutality victim Djamel Atal 25, fell after failing to obey a police order to Stop his motorcycle. But witnesses said a policeman threw his Walkie talkie at the victim knocking him to the ground. He suffered a fractured Skull and two police officers were injured in the incident. Built 20 years ago Bourgogne slow income housing projects were once seen As the Best in France about 10,000 people half of them unemployed North african immigrants live in the projects. Drug abuse is rampant and police conduct sweeps about twice a month. There has been similar rioting in several Low income immigrant dominated suburbs in past  peacekeepers to withdraw from Cyprus from wire reports Copenhagen Denmark a danish peacekeeping forces in Cyprus will withdraw after 28 years foreign minister Uffe Elleman Jensen said tuesday. The 352 volunteers patrolling Between the greek and turkish zones will probably be out of Cyprus by Early 1993, Telemann Jensen  activists released Jerusalem a israeli police on tuesday released about 100 american and european peace activists detained sunday for crossing into a closed military zone. Kathy Kelly of Chicago said other activists visited palestinians in a closed military area near the West Bank town of Jenin. The activists were arrested for trying to enter the area two Days earlier. The activists Are in Israel for a week of anti occupation demonstrations timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 1967 six Day War during which Israel captured the  Singer Miller Dies Edmonton Alberta a jazz Singer Clarence a a big Miller who performed with count Basie and Duke Ellington died tuesday of a heart attack. He was 69. Miller bom in Sioux City Iowa got his nickname from his football playing Days in  s wife kills self san Salvador Al Salvador a the wife of vice minister of defense Juan Orlando Zepeda committed suicide at their Home in the salvadoran capital judicial sources said tuesday. Victoria Salinas de Zepeda 44, died monday of a gunshot wound to the head said a court official who asked that he not be identified. A we can Catalon it As a suicide a the official  plan auction Beijing a hoping to master the mysteries of capitalist style auctions and Stein the flood of Antiques smuggled out of China a state consortium announce plans tuesday to hold the country s first International auction. Organizers of the Beijing International auction which will run from oct. 10 to 15, will be Selling off everything from 16th-Century . Antiques to used  children too fat Vienna Austria a a study conducted at 33 schools in Vienna has found that 37 percent of children Are too fat austrian television reported tuesday. The study commissioned by the ministry of education was carried out by the University of Vienna on 2,000 schoolchildren in the capital Orf television  kills miners Moscow a a methane explosion in a ukrainian Coal mine tuesday killed at least 38 miners and rescuers continued to search for others a news Agency reported. The Accident occurred during blasting operations in the us Khorolskaya Vost Ochaya mine in the Krasnozon Region the itar Tass news Agency reported. No further details were  closings urged Moscow a the russian Academy of sciences has urged the government to shut old nuclear Power plants including chernobyl Type reactors because of safety concerns a newspaper reported tuesday. The recommendations were made a after a careful analysis taking into account International standards Quot according to the daily Izvestia. The scientists believe All a blk reactors should be shut Down the newspaper said. Those reactors have Graphite moderated cores of the Type that burned and exploded in the world s worst nuclear Accident at chernobyl Ukraine in 1986