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...service to Islam became a main theme in Karmal's diplomatic overtures toward Iran. He fired off a telegram to "Gracious Brother, Most Reverend Imam," the Ayatullah Khomeini. Karmal's message almost reverently appealed for an Afghan-Iranian revolutionary entente based on "Islamic brotherhood" and a shared hostility toward "American world imperialism-the No. 1 irreconcilable enemy of all the people of the world." Karmal promised that his government "will never allow anybody to use our soil as a base against Islamic revolution in Iran"-adding that "we expect our Iranian brethren to resume a reciprocal stance...
...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...
...highly placed aide in the Carter White House" called the HJLSA Friday to assure them that their telegram would have "maximum circulation to all persons who should see it," a spokesman for the HJLSA said yesterday. He added that the aide also gave his assurance that no action would be taken soon on Mendelsohn's reassignment...
...asked for a debate earlier, and had been turned down. And all of a sudden there was a telegram from the Secretary-General asking us to participate -please come in 24 hours, and the U.S. has agreed on it. Well, that was for us rather a surprise. We believe that the decision to go ahead with a Security Council debate now means that the Americans have...