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Bundestag President
Bitter Over Resignation
Bonn (JTA) — Philip Jen-
ninger shifted over the week-
end from public remorse to a
bluntly defensive stance,
following his resignation last
week from the presidency of
the Bundestag.
He complained bitterly in
interviews published Satur-
day that it was no longer
possible to speak the truth. In
Germany today, "you can't
call things by name," Jen-
ninger said, referring to the
speech he delivered in the
Bundestag, which many in-
terpreted to be a justification
of the Nazi regime.
In a statement read for him
by the Bundestag's vice presi-
dent, Annemarie Renger, Jen-
ninger said he was shaken by
the response and it weighed
heavily on his conscience.
He claimed his speech was
misunderstood and that his
auditors did not grasp his
intention, which was to ex-
plain why the German people
so ardently embraced Hitler
more than a half century ago.
He said he regretted any
remarks that might have
hurt survivors of the Nazi era.
The former president's
remarks were all the more
shocking because they were
delivered at a solemn special
session of the lower house of
the West German parliament
commemorating the 50th
anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Jenninger, a ranking mem-
ber and rising star of Chan-
cellor Helmut Kohl's govern-
ing CDU, seemed bewildered
by the furious reactions to his
speech.
He resigned Nov. 11 under
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He claimed his
speech was
misunderstood and
that his auditors
did not grasp his
intention.
for his achievements and in-
sisted that he really held deep
feelings of friendship and
respect for the Jews.
Only the Green Party re-
frained from exculpatory
statements. It demanded a
debate on the issues raised by
Jenninger's speech, namely
just how deep and widespread
anti-Semitism is in the
parliament of the Federal
Republic.
Surprisingly, Jenninger al-
so found a defender among
the members of the Central
Council of Jews in West Ger-
many. Michael Fuerst said
there was no reason to de-
mand his resignation.
According to Fuerst, the
speaker had simply acknowl-
edged that the German peo-
ple followed Hitler blindly
because of his initial
successes.
Israeli Panel To Consider
Terrorist Death Penalty
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fire in the Federal Republic
and abroad.
Observers predicted that
Jenninger's speech will be-
come a major political issue in
the days and weeks ahead.
Opposition politicians were
furious. Coalition party mem-
bers were appropriately cen-
sorious, but held that Jenn-
inger was a decent fellow who
had made an inexplicable
mistake.
Chancellor Kohl issued a
statement praising Jenninger
Jerusalem (JTA) — A gaso-
line bomb attack that killed
an Israeli woman and her
three small children near
Jericho two weeks ago may
result in death sentences for
terrorists.
The Cabinet'set up a minis-
terial committee headed by
the defense minister and in-
cluding the foreign and
justice ministers to deal with
the issue. The attorney
general will also serve on the
committee.
The judge advocate general,
the chief legal officer of the
military, could, after con-
sultation with the ministerial
panel, demand the death
penalty for a particularly
heinous terrorist crime, with
good chances that it would be
applied.
Capital punishment for ter-
rorists is allowable under
Israeli law. But military
prosecutors have avoided it,
in part for fear of the conse-
quences that would befall
Israeli soldiers or civilians
captured by terrorist
organizations.
The purpose of the new
committee is to create a legal
apparatus to encourage prose-
cutors to deviate from past
practices.
The committee was set up
at the initiative of Justice
Minister Avraham Sharir and
endorsed by Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.