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...formulating proposals to stop far-right groups from demonstrating near Holocaust memorials. This would nix the NPD's planned May rally at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate near the new memorial to murdered Jews but would not have prevented clashes last weekend between the NPD and left-wingers in Schleswig-Holstein, where elections take place on Feb. 20. Moscow, too, is confronting anti-semitism. On Jan. 13, 500 prominent Russians, including 20 members of parliament, sent a letter to the state prosecutor calling for a ban on all Jewish organizations, which they labeled "extremist." It was withdrawn after government pressure...
...charge patients a 310 fee every quarter to visit a doctor, raise pension payments that have been cut this year, and reform the tax system to benefit low wage earners. Schröder said the party might expel the rebels. Heide Simonis, the SPD premier of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, warned that if a new left-wing party siphoned off votes, then the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) would "win elections almost automatically." In Warsaw, Marek Borowski, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and until last week a prominent member of Miller's ruling Democratic Left Alliance...
...labs - an average of 20% to 25% - supports Baker's thesis. Of course, many doubtful dads have the test done not out of curiosity but because of divorce and impending child-support payments. "Most of the time," says Henriette Tewes, managing director of the DNA lab Papacheck in Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, "it's about money...
...vote. In Italy last week the Christian Democrats and their three coalition partners lost their governing majority. In Germany xenophobic rightists slithered into two state parliaments, breaking the single-party control of the Christian Democrats in Baden-Wurttemberg. The opposition Social Democrats barely avoided the same fate in Schleswig-Holstein...
Blitzkrieg and deception. In disputed Danzig, the once German port administered by the League of Nations since the end of World War I, the attack had begun half an hour before the invasion, when local Nazi Storm Troopers seized several key buildings and intersections. From the harbor, the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, which had arrived a few days earlier on a "courtesy visit," began emptying its 11-in. guns at the Westerplatte peninsula, where the Poles were authorized to station 88 soldiers. The only real resistance came from the Polish Post Office on Heveliusplatz, where 51 postal workers barricaded the doors...