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...special report commissioned by the U.S. SixthCircuit Court of Appeals cleared UniversityAttorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. of any wrongdoing inthe prosecution of former Cleveland autoworkerJohn Demjanjuk as the notorious Nazi death campguard Ivan the Terrible...
...Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chose as its new director a man unassociated with rock but familiar with the public spotlight: Dennis Barrie. His previous job was director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and while there he was charged with obscenity for a controversial show of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs (Barrie was cleared). "I have a high-culture background," said Barrie, but pop culture "is one of the most potent forces in the world...
...retribution go on? How many more war criminals, their faces surgically disguised and their identities long since falsified, can be brought to justice? Those questions reverberated around the world last week after the Israeli Supreme Court unanimously overturned the 1988 conviction of John Demjanjuk. The 73-year-old retired Cleveland autoworker had been sentenced to death for being "Ivan the Terrible," the notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp who operated the gas chambers...
That's the address in suburban Cleveland where John Demjanjuk lived when Justice Department lawyers, including University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., attempted to revoke his citizenship more than a decade...
...Ivan the Terrible," who hacked at his naked victims with a sword as he herded them by the thousands into the gas chambers he operated at the Nazi death camp Treblinka. American and Israeli officials were certain they had found him in John, formerly Ivan, Demjanjuk, a retired suburban Cleveland autoworker of Ukrainian descent. He was extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and condemned to hang after a dramatic trial that transfixed the nation...