European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday november 4,1992 Germany denies gypsies being targeted Frankfurt Germany apr officials deported 17 romanians on monday and denied it was targeting gypsies in processing refugees under an agreement calling for Romania to take Back those denied political Asylum in Germany. The romanians were put on a flight to Bucharest under the agreement that took effect sunday As part of German attempts to restrict the flood of refugees into the country. A majority of romanian Asylum seekers Are gypsies the nomadic race that centuries of europeans have regarded As social outcasts. Gypsies often Nave been tar Berlin called capital for Neo nazi activity gated by rightists attacking foreigners in Germany. German officials have said that romanians Are the largest single group of refugees and that 70 percent Lack proper identification. They estimate that 100,000 romanians Are in Germany illegally. The government said the agreement signed in september requires Romania to take Back those of its citizens not having Complete identity papers. At the Frankfurt International Airport on monday a German Border police spokesman said that it was business As usual and that deportations have taken place even before the pact took effect. A this is a Normal Day Eckelhart Wache said. A some Days there Are More returned some Days  he said 17 romanians and one bulgarian were put on Board the Lufthansa flight to Bucharest. One of the would be refugees said that he was 21 and that he had worked at an italian restaurant in Western Germany for More than two years. Three jailed romanian gypsies climbed a prison Chimney monday in Ueltzen about 30 Miles South of Hamburg and threatened to commit suicide to protest their possible expulsion. They later climbed Down police said. Berlin up a the German capital is becoming a Center for Neo nazi groups according to a German intelligence Agency report leaked monday. A ideologically the old and new Reich capital. Is a Central area of activity for All Neo nazi groups a Heinz Annussek head of the Berlin Branch of the Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution said in the report. Neo nazi groups think a signal must go out to the movement from Berlin said Annussek whose report was obtained by the Berliner Zeitung daily. To achieve this goal he said former rival Neo nazi groups arc prepared to Bury their differences. A spokesman confirmed that the Agency had compiled the document. Annussek said a planned nov. 15 March by Neo nazis to a world War 11 German army cemetery in the town of halic was being organized by the Berlin prussian culture association. The group serves As an umbrella organization for the entire spectrum of right Wing extremists. More than 1,000 Neo nazis Are expected to take part in the March. The report said the Viking youth a nationwide organization that views itself As the successor to the Hitler youth had recently moved its National Headquarters to Berlin. The Viking youth has a several Hundred members throughout Germany and runs a training Camps for children and Young people the report said. Right Wing extremist political parties like the republicans and the German Peoples Union officially say they have no dealings with Neo nazis the report said. But at lower Levels of both these political parties a practical cooperation occurs with Neo nazi groups the report said. German councilman quits after angering leading jews Frankfurt Germany a a councilman in the Eastern German City of Rostock resigned monday hours after he angered jewish leaders. The incident came As jewish German relations arc troubled by a surge in no nazism and in the desecration of jewish monuments. It was sparked when the councilman Karl Heinz Schmidt questioned the patriotism of Ignatz Bubis the Leader of Germany a jewish Community. Bubis a Frankfurt businessman who chairs the country scentral Council of jews led a delegation to Rostock to inquire about the violence and the arrests of French jews there after a protest last month. The Central Council represents about 35,000 German jews who belong to various congregations. During a news conference Schmidt asked Bubis whether he considered Israel his Quot Homeland and what he thought about israelis treatment of palestinians on the occupied West Bank. A my Homeland is Frankfurt a Bubis replied. A when you say that my Homeland is Israel then 1 understand it As if you arc asking what am i doing Here if my Homeland is Israel. A for you a jew is something foreign something that belongs in Israel. There was German jewry once upon a time and it was wiped out by the nazis. The fact that there is no new German jewry today is linked to such questions that you  Michel Friedman a Board member of the Central Council demanded the immediate firing of Schmidt a member of Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democratic Union. A handcuffed David Irving is taken from an of lace in Niagara Falls Ontario on monday. He contends that 6 million jews did not die in the holocaust Man who disputes holocaust awaits Canadian deportation Niagara Falls Ontario up a British author David Irving who says the holocaust was exaggerated remained in custody monday when his deportation hearing was adjourned until today. Irving author of hitlers War and other books on world War ii violated a Canadian ban on his entry. He told the hearing he wanted time to prove that he had tried to leave Canada As ordered sunday but was refused admission by the United states. Irving allegedly entered Canada last week for a speaking tour after misrepresenting himself to customs officials he was arrested on Canadas West coast at a dinner in his Honor. Irving is barred from entering Canada because of criminal convictions in Germany related to his writings in which he also save the Auschwitz Gas Chambers in Poland where nazi Germany exterminated thousands of jews Are a tourist attraction built after world War ii. His immigration hearing monday was adjourned until this morning immigration spokesman Milt Best said. Irving will remain in custody until then. Irving spoke sunday night to about 100 people at a hastily arranged lecture at a Toronto hotel. Irving agreed to leave Canada but was denied Entrance to the United states late sunday at the Rainbow Bridge which connects Niagara Falls Ontario and Niagara Falls  in Hungary ready to let blood flow Budapest Hungary apr hungarian skinheads have held what they termed a National Congress in Budapest adopting a name and threatening to use violence to promote their causes a newspaper reported monday. It was the latest sign that increasingly militant Neo nazi radicals May be gaining a following in Hungary two. Years after the collapse of communist Rule. The report in the respected daily Magyar Hirlan did not say when the Congress was held or How Many people attended. But it quoted the organizer Istvan Szoeke As saying the Congress represented 1,500 to 2,000 skinheads and adopted the name Independent National youth front. A was much blood needs to flow for the fatherland As is necessary a Szoeke was quoted As saying. A either there will be Radical changes or anything May  other similar groups have sprung up recently. Last month Magyar Hirlan quoted a Leader of the anti fascist anti bolshevik federation As saying its members a feel justified in using illegal Means Quot to Force change. Such comments stand against a backdrop of similar activities a members of a Neo nazi group in the Western town of Gyor were found guilty last week of illegal Possession of firearms and dissemination of hate literature. A last month a group of shouting skinheads wearing fascist symbols prevented president Arodd Goncz from addressing a rally on anniversary of Hungary a 1956 anti communist uprising. A skinhead attacks against gypsies and third world students in Hungary have been increasing with police reporting 51 cases this year. Police estimate that there is a hard Core group of 300 to 400 Neo nazi radicals among Hungary a 10.5 million citizens but there Are believed to be Many More Radical right sympathizers. Government critics said radicals have been emboldened in part by prime minister j6zsef Antall a failure to curb the far right in his hungarian democratic forum. A forum vice president author Istvan Csurka stunned hungarian society last August with an eight Page polemic in which he criticized the party for weakness and suggested that it was being undermined by a jewish Liberal conspiracy. Szoeke the organizer of the recent skinhead Congress is an official of the Independent smallholders a Small conservative party that also is part of Antall s governing coalition. Recent Media reports said the skinheads have found other patrons within the coalition parties