After a long delay, the Bundesrat, upper house of the West German Parliament, has passed a bill which provides increases in the pensions given to some persons who had suffered persecutions under the Nazi regime. The upper house, however, turned down a government request to include among the pensioners given higher rates those whose occupational advancement was hindered by Nazi persecutions.
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