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February 17, 2000
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Thirty-seven members of the U.S. Congress denounced a Syrian newspaper for publishing an article in which the editor minimized the Holocaust and said Zionism is worse than racism. In a letter to President Clinton, the bipartisan group asked that Syrian leaders be urged to publicly distance themselves from the Jan. 31 article.

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