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…15 Neo-Nazis Defeated in Bavarian Elections BONN (JTA)—The radical right-wing National Democratic Party lost all 15 of its seats in the Bavarian state parliament elections. The party, widely regarded as neo-Nazi, polled only 3 per cent of the total vote compared to the 7.4 per cent it won in the last elections. According to West German law, a party must poll at least 5 per cent of the total vote to be seated in the state or federal parliament...…

…UN Group Acts to Combat Crime of Genocide UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities unanimously adopted a resolution that would, in part, call on member nations to suppress any revival of Nazism and racial intolerance. The sub- commission of the UN Commission on Human Rights recommended that the General Assembly call on all eligible states to ratify the Convention on the Prevention and...…