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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 1, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4the stars and. Stripes wednesday May 1, 1991 anti semitic video games being sold. Los Angeles apr a video game circulating in Austria and Germany puts the player in the role of a nazi concentration Camp manager earning Points for gassing prisoners and Selling Gold fillings a holocaust study Center says. A the underground game Khz manager and about 140 others with titles such As aryan test Werc made for Home systems and Fca Turtte graphics of swastikas Adolf Hitler and gassed and tortured prisoners the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the Center which has eight of the games and demonstrated two monday said it does not know who is writing the programs or where they Are being manufactured. They Are almost entirely in German. The games Are clearly based on the holocaust but often substitute turks Many of whom now work in Germany for jews. Those games however also make anti semitic references and the game aryan test targets jews directly. Irtz manager the player runs the Treblinka death Camp. A  is shorthand for the German word for concentration Camp. The game includes a graphic of a cast Liike Structure topped by a Swastika and a Chimney spewing smoke. The player must manage the Camp Selling Gold fillings lampshades and labor to earn enough Money to buy Gas and add Gas Chambers to kill turks. A aryan test says it is by Adolf Hitler software Ltd. The game anti Turk test says it was made in Buchenwald by Hitler amp Hess. Rabbi Abraham Cooper associate Dean of the Center said he believes the games Are Neo nazi propaganda aimed at youth through a technology their parents Are largely unfamiliar with. A not shocking to anybody the kids arc Way ahead of the adults and this is one area where the nazis the fascists have found a Way in a he said. Distribution has been by electronic mail under counter sales word of Mouth and in deceptive packaging on store shelves Cooper said. A the concentration Camp manager game its package looked like some sort of Money game a he said. Cooper said the games have been around As Long As three years and appear to be widely known among students at austrian High schools. Austrian newspapers last week reported a poll of students in one City found 39 percent knew of the games and 22 percent had encountered them he a said. A. A a a a a a a a a �.���. A the Center said it does not know if computer software is covered under strict anti nazi Laws in Germany and Austria but Cooper said he will raise that question with authorities there. Making Law Day the Law president Bush gestures after signing a proclamation designating May 1 As Law Day. He said the occasion would Honor a fall those americans who labor and sacrifice to defend the Bill of rights and Rule of  Bush gave particular Praise to the armed forces and Law enforcement officers. Flanking Bush Are rep. Jack Brooks a Texas left and rep. Hamilton fish jr., . Plan for owls could Cost 40,000 jobs Washington a the governments proposal to protect the Northern spotted owl would Cost the Pacific Northwest about 40,000 jobs in timbering and related industries by 1995, roughly three jobs out of every four expected to exist a otherwise fish and wildlife service economists said monday. Logging on the Northwest a Federal lands would fall to less than one fifth of historic Levels and the regions Timber related employment would drop Ter 13,259 jobs according to a preliminary economic analysis of the governments latest Protection plan. That compares with 53,240 jobs the Forest service and Bureau of land management had projected for 1995 under existing Forest management plans that do not provide any special Protection for the threatened owl. Under a Federal court order the fish and wildlife service has proposed logging restrictions for 11.6 million acres of Northwest forests it deems critical to the survival of the estimated 3,000 remaining pairs of spotted owls. Veto squashes Veggie Bill in Colorado Denver a a Bill that would have nixed negatives about vegetables was vetoed monday by Goy. Roy Romer. The so called a Veggie Bill was intended to prevent uninformed challenges to the wholesomeness of food products. It would have allowed food producers to sue those who falsely disparaged their. Products. President busts Dosu Asfe for Broccoli would not have constituted libel under the measure but the legislation would have applied to the scare that resulted when the chemical alar sprayed on apples to make them More attractive was accused of being harmful to health Romer said lie was concerned the measure would inhibit free speech and possibly hamper the publication of research on health issues. A i am aware of the problems that unsubstantiated rumours can cause in relation to food products Quot Ronier said. But a constitutional Protection gives individuals As Well As consumer groups and researchers the guaranteed right to raise legitimate questions about food safety and  s sex los Angeles a Frank Sinatra a former lawyer sued author Kitty Kelley on monday claiming the pop biographer defamed him in her Best Selling Book a Nancy Reagan an unauthorized  h i i is a t Torney m Ilton Rudi n seeks unspecified damages from Kelley and publisher Simon amp schuster. The Case was filed in . District court because Rudin alleged violation of a Federal Law that deals with misrepresentation of facts in interstate Commerce. Calls placed to Simon amp schuster alter business hours monday went unanswered. Sues Kitty Kelley rudins Secretary said company policy prevented Rudin from discussing the Law Quot suit. V Quot a. A a a a Kelley a Book lists Rudin As one of hundreds of her sources in the unflattering portrait of the former first lady. Rudin alleges that the author harmed Quot his reputation by implying he had discussed a client s personal life w Ith Kelley. He also contends that Kelley tried unsuccessfully to get  him for her first Book an unauthorized biography of Sinatra. _ a Rudin contends that Kelley knew he  help on the Reagan Book so she hired a researcher to try to get information from Rudin under false pretences. A a a a a a Quot. A a \ correspondence Between the researcher and Rudin were included with the petition. Those documents. Indicate that Rudin stopped answering questions from the researcher after becoming suspicious of her motives. The inquiries included at least one regarding a personal meetings Between mrs. Reagan and Sinatra. Both Kelley a books on the Singer and mrs. Reagan refer to a romantic relationship Between them. Sinatra has denied it and former president Reagan has issued a statement a saying the Book is riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods. A a a. A. A r a. Raise to Helena Mont. Apr gov. Stan Stephens signed a pay raise to end a five Day strike by thousands of state workers tuesday. A i m not going to be holding people out for another Day Quot Tom Schneider of the Montana Public employees association said after the legislature approved the raise late monday. A a we re notifying people tonight to go to  the Union represents 4,000 stale workers including Highway patrol officers. _ More than 5,000 employees in All have been on strike since thursday demanding higher pay. Hundreds of National guardsmen filled in for strikers who also included prison guards clerical workers and institutional  a a a no serious disruptions were reported. A the governor signed the Compromise Bill into Law late monday giving employees a $34 million raise Over two years lawmakers had rushed the plan through the legislature on the final Day of Mon Tana a biennial session. Quot its time to end this strike and pm this session a said House minority Leader John Mercer a Republican. A Litls Tim for the anger and frustration in Montan to  a a  
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