The governor of a southern Polish province revoked permission for a disco to be built near the site of the Auschwitz death camp. Tuesday’s action came in response to protests that noise from the disco would disturb visitors to the site. Local officials had previously given permission to open the disco in a building that once was a storage house for the camp.
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