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| Title: | BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest |
| Notice: | 1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration |
| Moderator: | SMURF::FENSTER |
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| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1524 |
| Total number of notes: | 18709 |
1496.0. "Queen Eliz. in Poland - forgets Holocaust" by TAVIS::JONATHAN () Wed Mar 27 1996 14:05
The following item appeared in the VTX VNS News today - Wed 27th March 1996.
VNS MAIN NEWS: +Kevin Bowen-Nellthorp, VNS News Desk+
-------------- +Nijmegen, Netherlands +
Palace error in Queen's speech
A HISTORIC speech by the Queen to the Polish parliament ended in
diplomatic embarrassment yesterday when a computer error removed all
reference to the Holocaust from her text. Palace and embassy officials
watched helplessly as the Queen delivered a speech which omitted to
mention Jewish suffering under the Nazi occupation.
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Maariv (a major Israeli newspaper) reported yesterday that the Queen would
*not* visit Auschwitz concentration camp "for lack of time" on her official
state visit to Poland. Jewish groups in England were reported to be incensed
at the fact that there was no visit to the concentration camp.
Hmm, I really wonder if the omission win the speech wasn't intentional.
Isn't it marvellous how everything can be put down to "computer error"?
Bull****.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1496.1 | | STAR::FENSTER | Yaacov Fenster, Process Improvement, Quality & Testing tools @ZK | Wed Mar 27 1996 16:56 | 5 |
| What they really mean is that somebody used the computer to do a select
/delete operation sequence...
GIGO - The one constant in this ever changing industry.
Yaacov
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