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About 140 different home video games circulating in Austria and Germany feature Nazis as heroes. In one game the player is commandant of a death camp and wins points for gassing prisoners and selling lamp shades and gold fillings. Turks, along with Jews, are the victims.
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A November Gallup poll revealed that 78 percent of Americans believe in heaven and 60 percent in hell, the highest such figures in about 40 years. Only 4 percent of the respondents thought they personally were going to hell, and 78 percent thought they had a good shot at heaven.
Ella Hartley, 53, a psychiatric patient on whose behalf a lawsuit was filed in 1982 by a public advocacy group in West Virginia to win more mentally ill people the freedom to live outside the hospital, drowned in November near Huntington. She had wandered off during a doctor’s visit to go swimming in the Ohio River.
