The government-sponsored bill to indemnify individual ### demanded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims ###ed two weeks ago by the Bundestag, West Germany’s ### this week-end by the Bundesrat, the Upper House.
###d of 38 delegates from nine constituent states in the ###aded three separate changes in the text of the bill. The ###csed amendments dealt with the sharing of costs between ### states. The indemnification program is expected to ###ally for the next ten years.
###that the Federal Government defray all expenditures in### ters of Nazism and half of all other payments. The Bun###t pensions provided for in the bill become effective in ### er of this year.
###f both houses will meet Thursday in an attempt to work ### houses will be dissolved at the end of the month, after ### by session, the fate of the measure hangs by a thread.
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