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November 11, 2000 

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's upper house of parliament Friday approved a government plan to seek a ban of an extreme-right party that has been compared to the Nazis and blamed for fueling a renewed wave of violence against foreigners and Jews.

The approval was expected after governors of Germany's 16 states, which are represented in the Bundesrat, indicated last month by a near-unanimous margin their approval of the ban. The vote Friday follows the Cabinet's decision Wednesday to make its case for banning the National Democratic Party, known by its German initials NPD, in the country's highest court.

The ban proposal is the strongest move yet by the government to quash a rising wave of hate violence that has claimed at least three lives this year. The NPD has been accused of fueling that aggression by preaching anti-foreigner sentiment and calling for a violent overthrow of the state to create a German "Volksgemeinschaft," or national community.

Arguing for the ban, governors said Friday in the Bundesrat that it was up to the politicians to do more than simply call for average citizens to stand up against violence - they must also use the legal means at their disposal.

Interior Minister Otto Schily also repeated his allegations that the NPD has a kinship to Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.

The party has a "dangerous, violence-generating political p-11-00 1158GMT