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...Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA) sent a telegram last Thursday to President Carter, Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), protesting the reassignment of Justice Department Nazi war-crimes investigator Martin Mendelsohn...
...telegram, the HJLSA cited Mendelsohn's unique expertise in Nazi criminal law, his ability to gain the legal cooperation of communist governments in prosecuting war criminals, and his excellent relations with the Jewish community as reasons he should not be reassigned...
Outside the lecture hall, members of the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA) protested Abdul-Assiz' designated status as "guest of honor" at the conference because of what they called Libyan violations of political and civil rights...
Nearby the Harvard Muslim Students Association distributed a statement challenging the HJLSA charges...
Barry Saltzman, president of the HJLSA, said yesterday the group did not intend to interfere with the conference in any way but wished to present an answer to what the group believed was a political statement by the organizers of the conference...