The World - News from March 27, 1986
The U.S. Justice Department announced it will review the evidence a Jewish group has gathered on the World War II activities of former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, a step that could lead to his being barred from the United States under a 1978 immigration law amendment. The department asked the New York-based World Jewish Congress for documents the private organization says demonstrate that Waldheim was involved in a Nazi massacre of thousands of people in Yugoslavia. In Vienna, Waldheim, who is running for the Austrian presidency, again denied any involvement in Nazi war crimes.
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