Vandals desecrate dozens of tombstones

Friday, July 19, 2002

ROME -- Dozens of Jewish graves were desecrated in a nighttime rampage through a Rome cemetery in Italy's latest display of anti-Semitism, prompting condemnation Thursday from politicians and Jewish leaders.

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