Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 28, 1994 TAG: 9410030029
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-12 EDITION: METRO
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AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan renounced its religious links to the West Bank on Tuesday in a move apparently aimed at avoiding further conflict with the PLO, but maintained its spiritual claim to Jerusalem.
A statement issued by Prime Minister Abdul-Salam Majali said Jordan also was dismissing hundreds of employees of nearly 40 religious sites in the West Bank.
The statement, read on national television, stressed that Jordan would continue to ``support the Palestinians by all means and ways, and will not allow any side to harm the deep-rooted relations between the Palestinian and Jordanian people.''
It said the action was taken on King Hussein's orders.
- Associated Press
Japanese threaten to leave bomb exhibit
TOKYO - Officials at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum are threatening to withdraw from the Smithsonian Institution's atomic bomb exhibit if it is changed in a way that ``does not reflect the feelings of the people of Hiroshima.''
The U.S. Senate last week passed a resolution urging the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to modify the exhibit to reflect the mood and concerns of American World War II veterans as well as victims of the world's first use of atomic weapons.
The exhibit as initially proposed cast the estimated 130,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers killed by the bomb - which fell on Aug. 6, 1945 - as victims of an aggressive, ruthless U.S. consumed by vengeance and racism.
That proposed portrayal of events drew protests from scores of U.S. veterans groups.
- Chicago Tribune
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