Three bills, aimed at the protection of minority groups in West Germany from defamation, were being scrutinized here today by the Bundestag Judiciary Committee, in an effort to reconcile differing versions of the proposed legislation drafted by the Government and by opposition parties.
The Government’s draft of the measure was passed on third reading in the Buddestag last December. Since then, however, parliamentary members representing several parties, as well as spokesmen for the Central Council of Jews in Germany, expressed opposition to the new legislation. The opponents of the drafts hold that the bill would single out the Jewish population, “imprisoning the Jews in a golden Ghetto. “
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