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A senior Bavarian politician found himself embroiled in scandal and criticism after a leading newspaper published allegations on Saturday that as a high school pupil he was responsible for an offensive anti-Semitic leaflet which circulated through the school. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, citing witnesses, reported that Hubert Aiwanger had distributed the offensive pamphlet at his high school in Bavaria during the 1987-88 school year. But Ainwanger, the leader of Bavaria’s conservative Free Voters party and the state economy minister, denied the allegation in a written statement on Saturd…