Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra of Spain backs off from recent statements by Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales who indicated at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg that Spain planned to soon establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
The change in leadership in the Soviet Union with the selection of Konstantin Chernenko to succeed Yuri Andropov as head of the Soviet Communist Party brings renewed hope that the Soviets will reopen the doors of emigration for Soviet Jews.
A new concordat signed by Premier Bettino Craxi, leader of the Socialist Party, and Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican Secretary of State, is said to have wide implications for the Italian Jewish community by establishing a clear demarcation between the temporal and religious powers of the church and advancing religious pluralism in Italy.
Citing a Supreme Court decision of more than 20 years ago, Chile says it will not expel Walter Rauff, the former SS leader who is responsible for designing the mobile gas vans used by the Nazis in the early stages of the Holocaust in which tens of thousands of Jews were killed.
Bohdam Zip, a conservative representing Calgary’s Mountainview District in the Alberta Assembly, is reprimanded and forced to retract a statement he makes to reporters, that Jews inflated the number of deaths in the Holocaust in order to win sympathy for Israel.
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