The World - News from April 2, 1987

John Demjanjuk, accused of being the sadistic guard “Ivan the Terrible” who mutilated and gassed inmates at a Nazi death camp, failed to appear at his war crimes trial in Jerusalem for the first time in seven weeks because of “paralysis of the neck and back,” his American lawyer, Mark O’Connor, said. The retired Ohio auto worker was examined by a physician and received an injection. He was reported well enough to watch the trial on closed-circuit television in a cell in the court building.