Spain: 2 Holocaust survivors testify
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- Spain: 2 Holocaust survivors testify
- FREX-US auto woes boost dlr yen; Spain bank rescue hits euro
- Spain May Probe Bush Admin fficials For Torture
- Spain becomes 1st in euro-zone to post deflation
- Spain Posts Decline in Consumer Prices
Spain: 2 Holocaust survivors testify
The Associated Press
Judge Ismael Moreno of the National Court heard from Ramiro Santisteban and Jesus Tello who were both at the Mauthausen camp for about four hours according to a court official and the human rights group that filed the lawsuit. Last July Moreno agreed to consider the complaint from the Brussels-based group Equipo Nizkor which argues the four suspects should be extradited from the United States on charges of genocide under the so-called principle of universal justice. The doctrine allows particularly heinous offenses — such as crimes against humanity terrorism and torture — to be prosecuted in Spain even if they are alleged to have been committed elsewhere. Spain has used it to go after former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet in 1998 and sama bin Laden in 2003 although extraditions and convictions have been extremely rare. The complaint identifies the four suspects as John Demjanjuk Anton Tittjung Josias Kumpf and Johann Leprich and says they worked as camp guards at Flossenberg and Sachsenhausen in Germany or Mauthausen in Nazi-occupied Austria. Demjanjuk is also being sought by Germany. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem which worked with Equipo Nizkor to prepare the lawsuit says Demjanjuk is No.
FREX-US auto woes boost dlr yen; Spain bank rescue hits euro
Reuters
The bama administration rejected restructuring plans forGeneral Motors (. N) and Chrysler and the Spanish governmentsaid the Bank of Spain will bail out regional savings bank CajaCastilla la Mancha renewing worries about financials. The White House said it would only fund GM for the next 60days while it develops a more convincing restructuring planwith GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner forced out. This sent global equities and government bond yieldshurtling lower as investors cut risk exposure wherever theycould. In foreign exchange this translated into a boost fortraditional safe-haven currencies like the yen and Swiss francwhile enforced flows from investors shoring up exposure torisky mostly dollar-denominated assets lifted the dollar. This unfolded at the start of a week in which the EuropeanCentral Bank holds its next policy meeting and Group of 20leaders meet in London.
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Spain May Probe Bush Admin fficials For Torture
MyStateline.com
The Bush administration set up the Gitmo facility at a U. naval base in Cuba following the 9-11 attacks. Alleged terrorists most of them arrested in Afghanistan have been at the facility for seven years or more.
Spain becomes 1st in euro-zone to post deflation
Forbes
1 percent in March from a year earlier making it the first euro-zone economy to post an annual rate of deflation – as opposed to inflation – since the international financial crisis began. The year-on-year decline is the first of its sort in Spain since records began in 1961 the National Statistics Institute said Monday. com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2009%2F03%2F30%2Fap6229442.
Spain Posts Decline in Consumer Prices
Wall Street Journal
Spain’s European Union-harmonized index of consumer prices or HICP fell 0. 1% from a year ago in March after a 0. 7% annual rise in February preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute or INE showed. The decline was the first since records began in 1961.
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