Archbishop Valerian Trifa, who was ordered deported from the U.S. in October, 1982, for his activities in leading the fascist Rumanian Iron Guard in a pogrom against Jews in 1941, leaves for Portugal, ending nine years of legal efforts by the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations to first strip him of his citizenship and then have him deported.
Boleslavs Maikovskis is ordered deported from the U.S. for having concealed his past activities as a police official in Nazi-occupied Latvia during World War II when he applied for entry into this country, thus reversing a ruling last year that he was “not deportable.”
The National Convention of the Republican Party is held in Dallas, renominating Reagan and Bush and adopting a strong pro-Israel platform. But on domestic issues the platform is the most conservative in the party’s history and contains many positions that have long been opposed by American Jews, particularly support for school prayer.
Jewish organizations strongly denounce the comments by Reagan at a prayer breakfast in Dallas, attended by 17,000 people, at which the President charges that those who oppose such expressions of religion as voluntary prayer in public schools are “intolerant of religion.”
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