U.S. Senate leaders urged the Polish prime minister to enact a law on compensation for property originally seized by the Nazis. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made the plea in a Sept. 27 letter to Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, emphasizing that many of those who would benefit are elderly.
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