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feature exhibits on the Nobel Peace
Prize-winning author and on Jewish
culture in the region.
Half of Romania's 800,000 Jews
died in the Holocaust. Fewer than
14,000 Jews live there today.
Wiesel said he had come to the
event "without hate or bitterness," and
praised Romanian efforts to overcome
its wartime fascist past.

Poland To Buy
Israeli Weapons

Warsaw/JTA — Poland said it will pur-
chase anti-tank missiles from Israel. The
deal for several thousand missiles is worth
up to $250 million over 10 years and will
help bring Polish armed forces up to
NATO standards, Polish officials said.
Poland's deputy defense minister,
Janusz Zemke, said Poland had con-
sidered bids from companies in South
Africa, France and Sweden, but ulti-
mately decided that the Israeli missiles
were the "most effective, although not
the cheapest." Poland will receive the
first missiles. from Israel next year.

Belarus Racism,
Desecration Rapped

Minsk/JTA — Jewish activists in
Belarus appealed to the government to
respond to a recent desecration of
Jewish tombstones.
Referring to the desecration of about
60 Jewish graves at two cemeteries in
Minsk, the Union of Jewish Public
Organizations and Communities said
anti-Semitism had reached a "massive
scale" in Belarus.
President Alexander Lukashenko,
however, said there was no anti-
Semitism in Belarus and called the
desecration of Jewish graves an acci-
dental "hooligan action." The Jewish
community maintains the government
is not doing enough and has not yet
punished anyone for anti-Semitic acts.

Romania Proposes
Nazi Criminal Ban

Bucharest/JTA — Romania said it
would move to ban Nazi war criminals
from taking shelter in the country.
Romanian Prime Minister Adrian
Nastase instructed the Justice Ministry
to draft a law banning war criminals
after indications that deportees from
the United States were trying to enter
Romania.

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