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eye on the Pentagon, which
has promised to investigate
the possibility that the mil-
itary has tolerated white su-
premacist and skinhead cells.
That disturbing possibility —
which groups like the Anti-
Defamation League have warned
about for months — became hard-
er to ignore with the arrest of
three soldiers at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
in a case involving the murder of
a black couple.
According to local officials, the
murder was racially motivated;
the subjects were arrested in a
trailer filled with nazi parapher-
nalia.
The Justice Department con-
tacted ADL officials in Washing-
ton, seeking information about
extremist groups in the military;
the Jewish group has collected ex-
tensive information about neo-
nazi groups around the country.
At the same time, ADL officials
are pressing for a full investiga-
tion by the army to see if existing
regulations forbidding participa-
tion in hate groups have been en-
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he White House has pulled
out all the stops in seeking
support for its decision to
send 20,000 American
troops to Bosnia. The outreach has
been particularly hot and heavy
when it comes to Jewish groups.
Jewish organizations were
part of a delegation that met with
President Bill Clinton to discuss
the Bosnian accord and the
American role in enforcing it; ear-
lier, groups like the American
Jewish Congress and the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee met with
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke,
who mediated the complex
treaty.
"The White House is pushing
very hard to build support," said
Mark Pelavin, Washington rep-
resentative for the American
Jewish Congress, a group that

has strongly supported Ameri-
can mediation efforts. "The Jew-
ish community appears to be a
big part of that effort."
His group, Mr. Pelavin said,
has responded by working with
an interreligious coalition sup-
porting the American action in
Bosnia, and by generating letters
from AJ Congress activists
around the country supporting
the presidential decision.
The Bosnian deployment — a
high-stakes gamble for Mr. Clin-
ton as the 1996 elections ap-
proach — remains the number
one topic in the Capitol.
At a news conference with Is-
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"The real question now is
whether the army has been
proactive enough in dealing with
issues of intolerance and preju-
dice in their ranks," said Jess
Hordes, ADL's Washington di-
rector. "The recent incident may
suggest that they are not. We will
propose to them that they un-
dertake prejudice reduction pro-
grams in the military, as well as
tougher enforcement of existing
regulations."
Mr. Hordes has offered similar
advice to the House of Represen-
tatives, where a congressional
page was the target of a swasti-
ka painting. The incident took
place in November, when a Jew-
ish page who works for Rep. Gary
Ackerman, D-N.Y., found a
swastika on the door of his Capi-
tol Hill dormitory.
The Capitol Police were inves-
tigating the complaint this week.
ADL has offered to bring it's
"World of Difference" prejudice
reduction program to the page
program; Rep. Bill Emerson, R-
Mo., a former page himself and
chair of the advisory Page Board,
has indicated interest in the idea.

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