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Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, June Page D8 14, 1990 ertradRlon dispyte with Enlm$ RA besieffis from DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Dermot Finucane, Northern Ireland jail-break- er and IRA gunman wanted by Britain, is enjoying a fine Dublin summer, savoring freedom and drawing welfare checks. "It's a great victory," said Finucane, 29, who has spent most of his adult life in jail or on the run. "For someone suddenly to say you're free ... it's also frightening and bewildering and wonderful at the same time." To the British government, his freedom is infuriating and the reasons are disturbing. In March, the Irish Supreme Court refused to extradite Finucane to British-rule- d Northern Ireland. It said his offense of possessing weapons was politically inspired, since the Irish Republican Army is fighting to unite Ireland. The five judges added that Finucane probably would be beaten by prison guards if returned to the jail from which he escaped in 1983. Prime Minister Margaret Thatch- er of ing and immoral and cannot continue," said Desmond O'Malley, leader of the Progressive Democrats, the Fianna Fail's junior coalition partner. Recent bombings in London have increased the pressure on Haughey. The British say the attacks herald a summer onslaught in mainland Britain as part of the IRA campaign to unite Protestant-dominate- d Northern Ireland with the overwhelmingly Catholic republic. Haughey says a 1987 act curtailing the plea of political motivation will "do away with the present difficulties." He tells critics to wait and see how the courts apply the 1987 statute, which incorporates the Among those who got away is a Roman Catholic priest, Patrick Ryan. The Irish attorney general refused his extradition on terrorism charges in 1988, declaring British politicians and newspapers had damned Ryan in such intemperate language that a fair trial was impossible. Britain and other Irish political parties are putting pressure on Haughey to amend the extradition laws. Critics want it spelled out that such crimes as murder or possessing weapons cannot be deemed political. "The idea that such barbarism should somehow be construed as a form of political action is nauseat European Convention on the pression of Terrorism. the running of Northern Ireland tion under the stricter law. Cases still take a year or more to under the 1985 Anglo-Iris- h Agreegrind through appeals, and scope ment. remains in the 1987 act for fighting Ireland's Progressive Democrats extradition on political grounds. began a campaign May 14 to toughSince 1972, Britain has made 112 en the extradition law, and found applications for extradition of se- the opposition Fine Gael and Labor curity offenders, Northern Ireland parties generally supportive. officials say, with seven granted, 41 "It is a huge scandal that that refused, and five still being fought. man (Finucane) goes free," party The rest lapsed. president Michael McDowell, a lawyer, said in an interview in the To Northern Ireland's unionists, library of his home. Sup- are "Our extradition laws amongst the best in the world," he told Fianna Fail's annual convention soon after Finucane was released. Also, however, delegates endorsed a resolution opposing any extraditions "to Northern Ireland and Britain in present circumstances." It said suspects should be tried instead under the republic's anti-terror- ist the Protestant majority, Ireland looks like a haven for their terrorist laws. Although Finucane's case predates the 1987 act, some critics say his release has undermined it and is good news for five Northern Ireland fugitives fighting extradi The British feel let down, because improved extradition procedures were supposed to be the reward for giving Ireland a say in Britain called the ruling "deeply, offensive" and said it encouraged "terrorists to the view that they will probably find a safe haven in the Republic of Ireland." Disputes over extradition have long clouded relations between the two countries, but things reached a new low after Finucane and an IRA comrade, James Clark, walked free March 13 into the arms of jubilant supporters. Both were convicted in Northern Ireland and sentenced to prison terms. 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A man named Ivan Marchenko also is on a list from the Main Commission for Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland containing the names of some Soviet prisoners of war who volunteered to join the Nazis as guards. The court also accepted that list. Demjanjuk 's defense lawyer, Yor-aSheftel, contends Marchenko, not Demjanjuk. is "Ivan the Terrible," a operator at Treblinka who tortured Jews as they were herded in to die. A week before the appeal hearing began May 14, the justices accepted testimony from a defense witness who identified Marchenko as Ivan the Terrible. The deposition came from Kaziemiez Dudek, a liquor store owner whose wife was a prostitute who slept with Ivan the Terrible. LZJ T Cw unease about the conduct of court cases in Britain in which Irish people are charged with terrorist offenses," said columnist Mary Holland of the Irish Times, which opposes the IRA. 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