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By ALISON SMALE in Vienna over the invitation, said In New York, the World Jewish
Associated Press Writer "it is very gratifying" that the pope Congress, which has made many of . 'This is not the first
would receive Waldheim, the allegations against Waldheim, unsavory character
VIENNA, Austria President Ziegler said Waldheim would said his scheduled visit with the PHILADELPHIA (AP) A
Kurt Waldheim, barred from the make an official visit, unlike the pope was "a tragedy for the Vati- the pope has state inquiry board has cleared a
United States because of alleged private audience the pope granted can and a sad day for Catholic- received.' Common Pleas Court judge of any
links to Nazi atrocities, will meet President Reagan earlier this Jewish relations." misconduct in an investigation of
with Pope John Paul II at the Vati- month. "This is the pope who met with —World Jewish Congress cash gifts from union officials, an
can next week in the first foreign "With this visit, things are being (Palestine Liberation Organization
visit of his year-old presidency, a put in perspective," Ziegler said, chief Yasser) Arafat. This is the Christian said Waldheim also has The Judicial Inquiry and Re
spokesman said yesterday. An official at the Vatican said pope who refuses to recognize Is- received invitations to visit Libya, view Board has asked the state
Since July 1986, when he won an privately: "The pope never invites rael," said a statement from the' Uganda and unidentified Western Supreme Court to reinstate Judge
election marked by allegations that someone for an audience. The re- congress. "This is not the first unsa- European and Eastern European Joseph P. McCabe Jr, according
he aided in the persecution of Jews quest for an audience is always vory character whom the pope has states. He refused to be more spe- to Timothy J. Savage, the judge's
and partisans while serving in the made by the other party. received in audience?' cific. attorney.
German army in the Balkans in "In a private audience, the stress Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, presi- Until Wednesday, the only trip The review board, in a prelimi-
World War 11, Waldheim has often is put on the person, while with an dent of the Synagogue Council of Waldheifil had planned abroad was nary vote, also recommended the
appeared diplomatically isolated. official audience, the stress is put America in New York, said of the the state visit to Jordan's King permanent removal of at least
He has made no official visits on his being the head of a state, scheduled meeting: "It's an affront Hussein. eight judges, according to Phila
abroad. Austria, which has diplomatic rela- to the survivors of the Holocaust Hussein arrived for a skiing trip delphia Inquirer sources. The
His spokesman, Gerold Christian, tions with the Holy See. With Rea- and to the victims, and as a conse- in February and was the first head judges will argue their cases early
said Waldheim would go to Rome on gan, the emphasis was more quence we will have to reassess our of state to be welcomed by Wald- next month before the board mem-
June 24 and would rgturn to Vienna personal." relationship with the Catholic heim. bers make their final decision, the
on June 27. The president already Noting that the pontiff had visited Church." U.S. Secretary of State George paper said.
was scheduled to visit Jordan July Austria in 1983 and would do so Israel and the Vatican do not P. Shultz and other visiting dignita- Meanwhile, the state Supreme
1-5. again in September 1988, he de- have diplomatic relations. Vatican ries snubbed Waldheim at the open- Court ruled yesterday two judges
The Vatican said Waldheim scribed Waldheim's audience as sources have said the main obsta- ing of the 35-nation conference on who invoked their constitutional
would pay an official visit on June part of a routine exchange of offi- ties include the dispute over Jeru- European security and cooperation right against self-incrimination
25. Such visits usually include a cial visits. salem's sovereignty, part of which last November. have 30 days to provide informa
private meeting with the pope, a Echoing Ziegler's words, in a Israel captured from Jordan in U.S. Attorney General Edwin tion about gifts or face losing their
public exchange of speeches and a different sense, the Vatican official. 1967, and the Palestinian problem. Meese, now in Vienna for the jobs.
ceremony playing national an- concluded: "You have to put this The Vatican visit was announced U.N. drug conference, put Wald- ' CoMmon Pleas Court Judge
thems. visit in perspective." . a day after Waldheim hosted a heim on a Watch List of undesirable John J. Chiovero and Municipal "A five for Joe McCabe," Local
Waldheim, a Roman Catholic, The announcement of the visit dinner for U.N. Secretary General .aliens in late April. Judge Joseph R. Glancey refused 30-308 business manager Stephen
will be accompanied by Foreign coincided with a visit to Rome this Javier Perez de Cuellar, who holds The U.S. Justice Department to answer a question about gifts on Traitz Jr. says on the tape.
Minister Alois Mock, Christian week by all of Austria's Roman the post Waldheim relinquished in said it had evidence that Waldheim their financial disclosure forms, But prosecutors said McCabe
said. Catholic bishops. 1981 after nine years. . aided in the deportation of thou: citing the Fifth Amendment. was out of town when Traitz's
Christian said Waldheim had re- Austrian officials refused to say if De Cuellar is in Vienna for a sands of Jews and partisans who McCabe and 14 other Philadel- messenger delivered cash enve
ceived the invitation to the Vatican this played a part in the Vatican U.N. conference on drug abuse. The' later died in Nazi death camps. phia judges were suspended lopes to judges in 1985.
several weeks ago, but the spokes- visit. There are traditionally strong dinner in his honor was one of the Waldheim has consistently den- Jan. 31 after federal prosecutors Attorneys for Chiovero and
man refused to be more specific. links between Austria's Roman rare international occasions hosted ied any wrongdoing and has crit- named them as recipients of the Glancey argued the financial dis-
Mock's spokesman Gerhard Zieg- Catholic church and Mock's conser- by Waldheim since he became pres- icized the U.S. action, as did many gifts from leaders of Roofers closure forms were unconstitu
ler, reflecting a general satisfaction vative People's Party. ident. . Austrians. Union Local 30-308. tional.
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A union messenger told authori
ties he delivered cash to McCabe
in 1983 and 1984.
Accepting cash violates no law
unless a judge agrees to rule fa
vorably in exchange for the gift.
Two judges and almost two doz
en union members and associates
have been indicted in the case.
• The Judicial Inquiry and Re
view Board petitioned the high
court Monday to reinstate Mc-
Cabe, his attorney said.
"He's relieved," Savage said.
"He's very anxious to get back to
work because that's what he en
joys doing."
Savage said McCabe will return
to work as soon as he receives
formal notification from the state
Supreme Court.
The judicial inquiry followed a
two-year investigation by the FBI
and U.S. attorney's office of the
Roofers Union. The FBI secretly
recorded union leaders in Decem
ber 1985 discussing how much cash
they would give to several judges
and other officials.