European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 18, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 5 1 i . Wronged dem Tonjuk court evidence found withheld in 86 extradition Case Cincinnati a the government withheld evidence that could have helped John Demjan Juk fight extradition to Israel an appeals court ruled wednesday in a decision that might help him regain his . Cit 6th . Circuit court of appeals said its own order authorizing Demjan Juk s extradition in 1986 was tainted because of prosecutor Al misconduct that amounted to fraud against the lawyers acted with reckless disregard for the truth the appeals court said in the unanimous ruling. The court did not say whether sanctions against the Justice department lawyers should be Justice department declined to comment. We Are Reading the opinion spokesman John Russell , a retired Cleveland autoworkers re turned to the United states in september after the israeli supreme court overturned his conviction and death sentence. The ruling was based on evidence that someone else was Ivan the terrible a guard at the Treblinka death Camp in nazi occupied Poland during world War ii. Demjan Juk was stripped of his . Citizenship in 1931 and convicted in Israel of being Ivan the terrible in 1988."Justice has been done and god bless America de Nishnic Demjan Juk s son in Law said of wednesday ruling. Attorney general Janet Reno has said in the Pas that the Justice department would pursue Demjan Juk s deportation. Justice officials said that would not occur until after the ruling on the extradition order. Wednesday s decision merely sets the stage for the deportation fight which the department has Long been on record As saying it is prepared to wage. A Federal judge appointed by the appeals court to review the Case had concluded in june that the Justice department unintentionally withheld evidence from Demjan Juk s lawyers. Wednesday s ruling found that the Justice department s nazi Hunting office of special investigations failed to give dam Janyk the court documents that could have supported the Man s claim he was wrongly identified As Ivan. Some of those documents could have raised questions about whether government witnesses wrongly identified Demjan Juk the court said it would not Rule on allegations that Demjan Juk might have been involved in other War insisted he was a victim of mistaken Iden Tity and said he spent most of the War As a prisoner of the germans. A native of Ukraine he was drafted into the soviet army. The court said Justice department lawyers should have disclosed statements Given to the former soviet Union by two former Treblinka guards who identified a ukrainian who tortured prisoners and operated the Gas Cham Bers As Ivan Marchenko. A list of ukrainian guards at Treblinka furnished by the polish government. Marchenko s name appeared on the list but Demjan Juk s did not the court said. Conflicting statements from a German guard who at one Point identified Demjan Juk As Ivan from photo graphs but earlier had been unable to pick out his photo. Navy exchanges Deal credit card to customers by Kevin Robinso staff writer purchasing by credit through the Nav exchanges in Europe has moved from paper to plastic with the creation of Phenex card a store official said wednes Day. Through the credit card the Navy Exchange has combined its deferred pay ment plan with the Home layaway pro Gram said Gary Shirley general manager of the Navy Exchange at Naples Italy. The immediate effect will be faster credit purchases for Navy Exchange customers he added. Before with Home layaway an Depp you had to fill out a form and enter it the Purchase into the computer Shirley said. Now you take it the card up to the Cash Register and you Are out the door. It cuts out time standing in however the card s credit limit i about $1,500 lower than the previous Cut off Point. The new credit limit varies from $2,500 to $4,000, depending on rank. Previously,e-4s and e-5s could charge a total of $4,000 under the Navy Exchange s App and Home layaway programs. Now their limit for the credit card is $2,500. We did a study of credit purchasing from e-5 through e-7 to determine i the lower limits would create a problem said Shirley who noted that most of his customers fell within those ranks. And we Only had five people All e-5s who would be Over the new limits by an average of less than $300." there is also a minimum purchasing limit in the states the minimum Pur chasing limit is $200 because the Nav Exchange does not use App there. Over seas the minimum is $50. But the finance charge remains the same As under the App Home layaway programs. It is 1 percent a month or 12percent a restrictions also apply to the card Shirley said it cannot be used to buy rationed items such As cigarettes or alcohol. The card is not honoured by the Armand air Force Exchange service. Anyone members of the Navy air Force or army or government civilians assigned or attached to a base serviced by a Navy Exchange can apply for the card if the person is authorized Exchange privileges Shirley said. There Are no for Mal credit checks. However applicants Are screened against Exchange records for such disqualifying things As being on the store s bad Check list he added. But applicants in the pay grades e-4 and below need their supervisor s Signa Ture on the application Shirley said so that someone knows this person has cred it. They e-4s and below Are the leading group of people with credit card prob the Navy Exchange unveiled the nex card nov. 1. At the Naples Exchange the credit card was started nov. 8, Shirley said. More than 250 people signed up for Iton the first Day he said. As of wednes Day 1,030 customers had signed up. Before the card was issued the store had 1,351 App and 997 Home layaway accounts. Navy Exchange customers who have an Active account under App and Home layaway can move that account Over to the credit card he said. However the must apply for the credit card. Billing will be handled for the Navy Exchange by Citibank retail services subsidiary of Citicorp Shirley said. They will do the Billing to the individual fro the states he said. Most customers at Naples exchanges probably will use the nex card for big ticket purchases such As Multi system televisions and videocassette recorders furniture and stereo equipment Shirley said. In june cafes combined its App and Home layaway programs and in creased its credit limits from $1,200 to$5,000. However there Are no plans to switch. To credit cards said Carrie Higley Krowka with cafes Europe at its Headquarters in Birndorf Germany. Russians cite natural causes in american s Bathtub death Moscow a a 35-year-old native of Everett mass., who was found dead in the Bathtub of his apartment apparently died of natural causes police said. The state department said the body of Michael Dasaro a former . Embassy employee who had been working for an american accounting company was found saturday by a maid. Vladimir Danilin head of the Moscow police department for crimes against foreigners said wednesday that forensic experts found no signs of violence on Dasaro s body and no water in his lungs indicating he might have been drowned. Danilin said a final report will be available in a week. Dasaro s brother Chuck told the Bosto Herald that the state department originally informed the family that his brother had suffered a heart attack but later said he had drowned. The family was told that the apartment door had been broken Down and the apart ment ransacked. Michael Dasaro s passport personal papers computer television stereo videocassette recorder and an unknown amount . Money reportedly were missing. Danilin confirmed that police found signs of a probable robbery but gave no further de was working As a management consultant for new York based Ernst & Youn company. He worked previously for the world Bank and the . Embassy in Moscow. In a possibly related incident about 20masked and armed officers from a special police unit raided the underground Gay bar i downtown Moscow a Day after Dasaro s body was found saying that one of yours has Bee killed a statement from a Gay movement searched those present and left after detaining one guest said the statement re leased by the Trey Golnik association of Gays lesbians and recently have been the victims of violent crimes in speculated that Dasaro May have been the target of hard line graduated first in his High school class and won a scholarship to Harvard University in Cambridge mass he spent at least five of the last 10 years i Russia and came Home for a visit in septem Ber just before taking the Job with Ernst Young. I told him do me a favor. With All this turmoil in Russia and americans getting killed in Africa could t you just get a Job i America his father Charles Dasaro told the Herald. Zoo loses a Friend to Hui the first naturally conceived Panda born in Captivity outside China died in her sleep tuesday at the Mexico City zoo where she was born. The 12-year-old Panda had been diagnosed with chronic intestinal inflammation and a week before she died had stopped eating her daily diet of cocked Rice milk and Leafy greens. Pandas an endangered species normally live up to 20 years in Captivity but to Hui had suffered from various ailments since giving birth in 1990.the death of to Hui who was buried in the zoo s Garden leaves Only 113 pandas in Captivity around the world
