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Twelve months ago, Superior Court Judge Frank Donato was tempted to send these first-time offenders, all age 13 to 14, to a juvenile prison for two years. After all, their rampage had coincided with the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the shattering of Jewish property in Germany and Austria that marked the start of the Holocaust. Victim Shaw, who broke down and cried in court while recalling the death of his best friend by "Nazi bullets," had unsuccessfully begged the judge to release the boys' names to the press. "They should have been persecuted, not prosecuted," says Shaw angrily...
...Romania demonstrations erupted against food and fuel shortages, amid calls for the resignation of President Ion Iliescu. In an apparent effort to deflect attention from its troubles, the government endorsed ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the forced cession of parts of Transylvania to Hungary in 1940. The maneuver may have worked in the short term, but at the price of increasing tensions between the region's 6 million Romanians and 2.3 million ethnic Hungarians...
...drowsy calm of a little town like Sturgis, S. Dak. (pop. 5,300), it is usually easy to notice when even one alien motorcyclist guns into town. But last week 275,000 showed up, along with a camp following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos...
Schulte said that in normal optical manufacturing, a difference of a 20th or a 50th of a millimeter is considered "standard tolerance...
Half a century later, Poland is rushing toward democracy, and officials are looking at the 50th anniversary of his death as a fitting day for a homecoming. During his visit to Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S. -- literally. Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay...