The United States has asked the Soviet Union to free Raul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat missing since 1945 who is credited with saving 25,000 Hungarian Jews from deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. According to Simon Wiesen-thal head of the Nazi War Crimes Documentation. Center here, Wallenberg’s name was on a list of Soviet dissidents which U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance handed to the Soviet delegation at the Salt 11 summit talks in Vienna last week.
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