Word: jdl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz distributed his own self-made pamphlet on Soviet human rights violations while picketing alongside 100 others, including a large number of Jewish Defense League (JDL) members...
...JDL has fostered a climate of anti-Soviet violence which encourages terrorist acts like Monday's incident, Dershowitz said. "Their kind of rhetoric gives them some responsibility for the bombing, whether they...
...have no idea who did it. I condemn it," said Kenneth Sidman, head of the Boston chapter of the JDL...
...Dershowitz defended a JDL member who was on trial for manufacturing a bomb which was planted in front of Columbia Pictures in New York. The bomb was placed in protest of cultural exchanges between the motion picture company and the Soviet Union and killed one person. The man was acquitted...
Abourezk met with FBI Director William Webster late last week and turned over information pointing to suspects other than the JDL, although the former Senator says he has no firm idea who is behind the attacks. At the same time, his complaints about federal indifference have stirred further action: the Justice Department's civil rights division announced last week it would investigate the attacks on the American-Arab group. Abourezk is now satisfied that the Government has committed adequate resources to the probe. Said he: "We were feeling goddamned alone out here...