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August 19, 1998
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The Polish government plans to assume control of a site near the Auschwitz death camp where more than 100 crosses have been put up in recent weeks. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek said the government would annul a 30-year lease on the land, which is held by a group linked to fundamentalist Catholics who mounted a campaign to erect the crosses. Jewish groups, objecting to any religious symbols at the site, have protested the campaign to Poland’s government.

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