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Monday, April 08, 2002

Chile soccer scrape over Palestine: Acting on a complaint by Chile's Jewish community, soccer authorities summoned the chairman of First Division club Palestino for talks after he refused to stop holding a minute's silence for Palestinian martyrs before games.

The club, founded by Arab immigrants, is also in trouble for flying a Palestinian flag at half-staff at its ground in Santiago in apparent defiance of a national ban on displaying political symbols at stadiums. (Jordan Times (News Section))