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        3/7/2010, Adar 21, 5770

      Obama Breaks Campaign Promise on Armenian Genocide Bill


      Despite campaign promises to support a resolution using the term “genocide” to define the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, the Barack Obama administration has recently expressed its strong opposition to the approval of such a resolution. United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters in Guatemala on Friday that the Obama government would “work very hard to make sure it does not go to the House floor.”