The Nation - News from April 17, 1987

The Justice Department said it will continue to consider offers from any country that will accept accused Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas despite the collapsed effort to deport him to Panama. Linnas’ attorneys are waging a battle in the courts to block deportation to the Soviet Union, where Linnas is under a death sentence for war crimes. “The law requires that he be deported; the law says nothing about where,” a Justice Department spokesman said. Panama decided to scrap its arrangement to take in Linnas when the plan was prematurely disclosed by Jewish groups.