The Italian Parliament approved legislation extending to elementary school teachers whose careers were interrupted by fascist racial laws the same privileges previously granted to other Italian civil servants for the same reasons.
The privileges include postponement in the mandatory retirement age and a pension which covers the years of actual service lost because of racial persecution.
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