Five teen-agers were sentenced to prison terms of between four and seven months for desecrating a Jewish cemetery in Slovakia. On July 3, a court also ordered them to pay $3,700 to cover damage caused last January to more than 30 tombstones in the cemetery in Banovce nad Bebravou.
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