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News At A GlanceLast updated: Sunday, December 12, 1999 12:24 PM ET

John DemjanjukDemjanjuk fights back: sues US Govt
ALLEGED Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk filed papers to have the U.S. government pay the legal fees he incurred while trying to clear his name. In papers filed Dec. 9, he said he has been reduced to poverty by "22 years of fraudulent" litigation charging that he was the notorious guard "Ivan the Terrible," who operated a gas chamber at the at the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1942-1943.

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