Jewish officials and other religious leaders discussed religious tolerance issues with Donald Rumsfeld. The U.S. defense secretary expressed support for forthcoming guidelines on religious tolerance in the Air Force on Wednesday, in the wake of discriminatory practices at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and said that if the guidelines were effective they could be replicated at other branches of the military, sources told JTA.
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