Col. Simon Bolivar Sierra, anti-Semitic opposition member of Congress, was near death here today form wounds suffered in a political gun battle in the center of the capital in which two men were killed. Six months ago Sierra and a few of his followers were taken into custody after organization anti-Semitic demonstrations.
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