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BON01-27MAR98-BONN: Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (top) and Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel during a debate at the German lower house of parliament 27 March, where a bill that would have allowed some children of immigrants to automatically become German citizens, was rejected. The proposed reform to the nationality law had specified that children born in Germany to at least one immigrant parent who had also been born in Germany would qualify. EPA PHOTO/DPA/TIM BRAKEMEIER