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09/03/04: Factual Aspect FA.3:
Prescriptions on Clothing:
Ban on Head Scarves Takes
Effect in France
By ELAINE
SCIOLINO, New York Times, 3 Sept 2004= PARIS, Sept. 2 - A law banning
Islamic head scarves and other religious symbols from French public
schools took effect peacefully on Thursday, transforming the first
day of school into a nationwide show of defiance of a demand by the
kidnappers of two French journalists in Iraq that the law be rescinded.
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