The Region - News from Feb. 12, 1985
A federal magistrate in Los Angeles delayed the scheduled start of an extradition hearing for Andrija Artukovic, 85, wanted by Yugoslavia on murder charges in connection with the slaughter of more than 700,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Croatia during World War II. U.S. Magistrate Volney V. Brown Jr. reset the scheduled start of the hearing to Feb. 19 after ordering Neal Sher, head of the Justice Department’s office of special investigations in Washington, to testify Wednesday on the origins of the extradition request. Artukovic’s lawyers have claimed that the extradition request should be dismissed.
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