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Bonn (JTA) —Thousands of
demonstrators clashed with
police over the weekend as
they protested neo-Nazi
political rallies in cities and
towns throughout West
Germany.
Tear gas was used to
disperse the angry crowds.
Dozens of police and
demonstrators were injured,
and arrests were made.
Police were out in force in
Gottingen to protect a rally of
the extreme right-wing Na-
tional Democratic Party
(NPD). About 2,000 pro-
testors, mainly leftists, made
several unsuccessful attempts
to burst into the open-air
meeting.
Police pushed them back.
But they managed to cut off
several microphones. Three
were arrested.
The Gottingen authorities
originally banned the NPD
rally. But a Braunschweig
court ruled last week that the
neo-Nazis had a right to
assemble.
In Mainz, a meeting of
another neo-Nazi group, the
German People's Union, coin-
cided with a music festival.
Hundreds of music lovers
descended on the rally. Police
intervened with tear gas.
The far right-wing parties,
most of them subscribing to
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ing vigorously this month for
election to the Parliament of
Europe, to be held on June 18.
These extremists, though
inconsequential in German
politics, have a good chance of
winning seats in the Euro-
pean Parliament, mainly
because moderates consider
the elections unimportant
and do not bother to vote.
West Germany's president,
Richard von Weizsacker,
recently the target of attacks
by neo-Nazi leaders, is ex-
pected to address the issue of
political extremism in a
speech he is scheduled to
deliver May 24. The occasion
is the 40th anniversary of the
founding of the Federal
Republic.

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Right-wing extremists ac-
cuse the president of advanc-
ing his career and popularity
abroad by dwelling upon Ger-
man guilt for the Holocaust
and other war crimes.
They like to remind the
public that Weizsacker's
father, Ernst von Weizsacker,
was sentenced by the Allies to
10 years in prison for im-
plementing Nazi foreign
policy.
The elder von Weizsacker
served as vice foreign
minister under Hitler's
foreign minister, Joachim von
Ribbentrop.

Physicists Ask Israel
To Release Colleague

New York (JTA) — Over
1,000 physicists from around
the world have called on
Israeli Defense Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin to halt deporta-
tion proceedings against a
Palestinian physicist detain-
ed by Israeli authorities
without charges since last
August.
The physicists, including 13
Nobel laureates and seven
winners of Israel's prestigious
Wolf Prize, are urging the
Israeli government to "listen
to [the] message" of Taysir
Aruri, a lecturer at Bir Zeit
University in the West Bank.
According to the physicists'
petition, Aruri was one of a
group of prominent Palesti-
nian and Israeli artists and
intellectuals who signed a
symbolic "peace treaty" last
June, calling for separate
Jewish and Palestinian
states. He was detained two
months later.
Edward Witten, physics pro-
fessor at the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study in Princeton,

N.J., and a coordinator of the
Physicists' Committee to Free
Taysir Aruri, last met Aruri
in 1982.
Witten
said
Israeli
members of the committee
have spoken to two Israeli
Cabinet members about
Aruri, but are sure there will
be no movement in his case
until after his appeal is
heard.
A spokesman for the Israeli
Embassy in Washington said
there will be no comment on
the case until it is heard.
Among the signatories are
Leon Lederman of Fermilab
and Jack Steinberger of
CERN, both Nobel laureates;
Freeman Dyson of the In-
stitute for Advanced Study
and Stephen Hawkings of
Cambridge University, both
winners of the Wolf Prize;
Marvin Goldberger, director
of the Institute for Advanced
Study; and Israeli physicists
Uri Maor of Tel Aviv Univer-
sity and Daniel Amit of
Hebrew University.

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