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Italian Float
Played Off Shoah
Latvia Probes
Shoah Killings
Storo, Italy/JTA
Police in northern Italy confiscated an
Auschwitz-themed float that featured
dancing concentration camp inmates
and Nazi guards.
The float, part of a Carnival
parade in the town of Storo, shows
inmates and guards dancing together
under a banner showing clasped
hands, with white doves flying out of
a crematorium. Storo's mayor defend-
ed the float, calling it "an invitation
to peace."
The Australian Jewish community is
welcoming reports that Latvia is
investigating an Australian citizen
who allegedly participated in the
killing of thousands of Jews during
World War II.
Australia's own investigation into
Karlis Ozols, accused of being a
senior officer in the wartime Latvian
security police, was abandoned in
1992, when Australia closed its
Special Investigations Unit.
Protest At Home
Of First Lady
Rabbis, Clinton
Eye Harmony
New York/JTA — Some 20 Jewish
extremists demonstrated outside the
suburban New York home of first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The protesters denounced Clinton's
support for the Middle East peace
process and claimed she opposes freeing
Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life
sentence for passing secret U.S. military
information to Israel.
The demonstrators belonged to Kach
and Kahane Chai, which are on the
U.S. State Department list of terrorist
organizations.
Darwin's Theory
OK In Class: Poll
New York/JTA
There is broad public consensus in the
United States that Darwin's theory of
evolution, not creationism, belongs in
the nation's science classes, according to
a new survey.
Most Americans see evolution as
scientific theory and creationism as a
matter of belief, according to the poll
commissioned by People for the
American Way.
Israel To Pay
Intifada Victim
In a precedent-setting
Jerusalem/JTA
ruling, an Israeli court ordered the state
to pay about $169,000 in damages to
five Palestinians injured by Israeli sol-
diers during the Palestinian uprising.
The judge said the state failed to
prove the plaintiffs had thrown stones
and even if they had, breaking fingers is
not considered "reasonable force,"
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Jewish religious leaders joined
President Clinton in a White House
meeting on racial reconciliation.
"The Jewish community needs to
look at where we are on race rela-
tions," said Rabbi Kenneth Hain,
president of the Rabbinical Council
of America, an Orthodox umbrella
group. "There's more to be done."
Palestinians React
In Poet Scrap
Jerusalem/JTA — The Palestinian
Authority said it plans to introduce
Israeli literature in its schools.
"This decision is a response to the
racist incitement campaign conduct-
ed by Israeli media and political
forums" against the decision by
Israeli Education Minister Yossi
Sarid to include works by a
Palestinian poet in Israeli schools,
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