President Clinton reappointed Miles Lerman as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Lerman was at the center of a controversy earlier this year when he extended an invitation to the museum to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, then retracted it before extending it again. The museum’s executive council forced the museum’s director, Walter Reich, to resign after the incident, prompting supporters of Reich to publicly oppose Lerman’s reappointment.
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