The World - News from Feb. 13, 1987

Sweden rejected a request from the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Los Angeles to take action against 12 people who allegedly committed war crimes during World War II. The government said in a statement that it had examined the center’s charges about 12 people of Baltic origin. It found that only four were alive and that the period of prosecution had expired. In its request last November, the center also had asked the government to investigate how many Nazi war criminals came to Sweden after the war. The government said the issue had been looked into immediately after the war.