>* France Imitates Marge Schott: In June, France's Sports
>Minister Guy Drut ordered his Olympic synchronized swim team
>not to do its planned Holocaust-themed goose-stepping entrance,
>set to music from the movie Schindler's List. On the same day,
>France's Education Minister Francois Bayrou denounced a
>classroom exercise of a high school math teacher in a Paris
>suburb which asked how much carbon monoxide one of
>Hitler's trucks could produce in an hour, given the volume of the
>truck's cabin, the amount of the fatal dose, and the fact that death
>usually took 20 minutes. [New York Times-AP, 6-6-96] [Globe
>and Mail, 6-6-96]
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