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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 8, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 bloody Trail from Italy leads to sex is new York a a former nazi officer accused of rounding up jews in Italy during world War ii and helping to massacre More than 300 civilians in caves near Rome has been discovered living in Argentina. /. A a the Simon Wiesenthal Center in los Angeles is asking Germany to reopen the Case of former is capt. Erich Riebke said rabbi Marvin Hier Dean of the Center. A v a a the Trail leading to Riebke started at the Vatican after the War where a Man working for a German Bishop helped smuggle former nazis to South America in an operation dubbed the a rat line a Hier said. That Man a German named Reinhard kops was located last year in Argentina by the Wiesenthal Center. Now in his 70s, kops lives several Hundred Miles from Buenos Aires and goes by the name Juan Mahler. When the Abc news show primetime live sent a team to Argentina last month to do a Story on former nazis living in South America the Center told it about a kops. A a  Abc confronted him on the Street near his Home with evidence provided by the Center. Kops admitted his wartime activities. He also fingered Riebke now in his 70s, who lives nearby. Abcs confrontation with Riebke was broadcast on an Friday night. Riebke was second in command to Herbert Kappler an is colonel in Rome who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the executions of 335 italian civilians including 70 jews in the Ardea Tine caves near Rome on March 24, 1944. Kappler died in 1978. Riebke escaped from a British detention Camp in Northern Italy after the War Warsaw Poland a the Young democracies of Eastern Europe must eliminate Trade barriers and red tape to Foster capitalism and join a unified global Market business and government officials said Friday. \ a the reintegration of previously divided parts of the world into a single organism interdependent in the areas of politics economics and social life is one of the greatest challenges of the 1990s,�?� polish prime minister Waldemar Pawlak said. Pawlak opened a two Day meeting Between the group of seven industrialized democracies and 10 former members of hungarian candidate injured in car crash Budapest Hungary apr Hungary a lacklustre election Campaign turned suddenly tense this past week when the leading contender for prime minister was badly injured in a High Speed car crash. Socialist Leader Gyula horns car slowed into an unlighted parked truck thursday night. He was in serious condition casting uncertainty on who would Lead the country after today selections. Horn suffered a fractured cervical Vertebra at Roken wrist and a concussion. But Fate Friday his doctors said he would Likely be out of bed within five Days. Abc news correspondent Sam Donaldson left interviews former nazi is capt. Erich Riebke on the Street in Buenos Aires Argentina of primetime live. And vanished Hier said. The rabbi said his Center has documents showing that Riebke rounded up jews in Italy under orders of Adolf Eich Mann who oversaw the deportation of Europe a jews to the nazi concentration Camps. Eichmann was captured in 1960 in Argentina convicted  crimes in Israel and hanged in 1962. Hier said one document showed that a Riebkes a role in the Cave massacre was to line the victims up and a Check them Quot off As they were  in documents Abc news has obtained Riebke also admitted that he shot at least two of the victims who died with their hands tied behind their backs Hier said. The Wiesenthal Center has sent a letter to a special prosecutor in ludwigs Burg Germany requesting that Riebke be extradited to Germany and charged with crimes against humanity Hier said in a Telephone interview from his hotel room in new York City. To support its Case the California Center plans to use various wartime documents it and Abc. Have located in the United states Israel and England the East bloc. \ the meeting was seeking to find ways to Foster economic growth and stability in the Wake of communism a fall. A your problem is the scale of transformations a polish president Lech Walesa said. A this scale is so big that individual countries cannot Cope with it. That is Why we strive so much for International  virtually every speaker at the conference which was to end saturday was carrying the same message. Business people said they need to Cut through the bureaucracy that they find is strangling efforts to pump foreign capital into countries such As Poland Russia and Hungary. They want regulations that Are Clear concise and  echoed the concert and said they Are receptive to a request to at least consult businesses before passing legislation that affects them. The group of seven comprises the United states Britain Germany Japan Canada Italy and France. V the 10 former East bloc countries attending were Poland Hungary Russia the czech Republic Slovakia Ukraine Romania Belarus Kazakhstan and Bulgaria. Vote results Don t rattle . Leaders London a battered in local elections and Likely to be kicked again in european parliament elections in june prime minister John major and his conservative party arc on familiar ground. A a it a Normal in our country that after a party wins elections it becomes unpopular a foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said Friday a Day after the party suffered its worst defeat in 15 years in Power. A after two years it regains popularity and wins the next general election a Hurd said. For major the immediate worry is that the party will be tempted to repeat its tactics following a miserable local election Campaign in 1990, the party threw prime minister Margaret Thatcher overboard later that year and went on to win a fourth straight National election in 1992 under major. A if anyone chooses to engage in that fight they will find me standing there waiting for them Quot major said outside his no. 10 Downing Street office. John Carlisle a Maverick conservative member of parliament said he had reluctantly decided to Challenge majors leadership of the party this autumn. 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