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Homosexual
Sues IDF

Jerusalem (JTA) — In a case that
could have a major impact on gay
rights here, the homosexual part-
ner of an army colonel who died
of cancer is suing the Israel De-
fense Force for a survivor's pen-
sion.
In a Tel Aviv court last week,
the IDF stated that it did not rec-
ognize the claim of Adir Steiner
that he lived as the partner of the
late Col. Doron Maisel, adding
that Mr. Steiner had no rights as
a member of Col. Maisel's fami-
ly.
Citing letters Col. Maisel had
written before his death, Mr.
Steiner, in turn, claimed that the
IDF knew that he and Col.
Maisel had lived together for the
last eight years of Col. Maisel's
life.
Mr. Steiner further argued
that when he accompanied Col.
Maisel abroad for cancer treat-
ments, the IDF gave Mr. Steiner
the same security check as would
have been given to a wife accom-
panying her officer husband.
No verdict has yet been hand-
ed down.

Statement
On Reparations

Washington (JTA) — The Senate
passed legislation last week pre-
venting federal agencies from
counting Holocaust restitution
payments as income when de-
termining eligibility for federal
assistance programs.
"These payments are not in-
come, but gifts from the people
and the government of Germany
who are trying to make amends
for one of the darkest periods in
human history," Sen. Dennis
DeConcini, D-Ariz., said.
Companion legislation was in-
troduced in the House last year
by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman and
recently passed there.
Mr. DeConcini, who intro-
duced the legislation in the Sen-
ate, did so after receiving a letter
from Fanny Schlomowitz, an 83-
year-old Holocaust survivor liv-
ing in a government-subsidized
one-room apartment in Phoenix.
Ms. Schlomowitz wrote that
her rent was to increase by four
times the current amount be-
cause the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development
considered her restitution pay-
ments as income.
Prior to the legislation, there
was no law applying to all fed-
eral agencies that determined if
restitution payments are income
or not.
President Clinton is expected
to sign the bill into law later this
summer.

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