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DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 1997              TAG: 9701280133
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-6  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: BERN, SWITZERLAND

SWISS AMBASSADOR TO U.S. RESIGNS

Switzerland's ambassador to the United States resigned Monday after outraging Jewish groups and their supporters by likening his country's Nazi gold crisis to a war that had to be won.

Carlo Jagmetti described allegations from Jewish groups and U.S. politicians that Swiss banks profited from World War II as a ``war'' Switzerland must ``fight and win on two fronts: foreign and domestic.''

Jagmetti's remarks prompted protests inside and outside Switzerland. Israel's Jewish Agency called for an immediate apology from Switzerland.

- Associated Press

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