Article: AUSTRIAN LEADER BARRED FROM US WALDHEIM TIED TO NAZI CRIMES

WASHINGTON - President Kurt Waldheim of Austria has been barred from entering the United States because of evidence that he took part in the persecution of Jews and of others during World War II, the Reagan administration announced yesterday.

A yearlong Justice Department investigation, triggered by accusations from Jewish groups that Waldheim was involved in Nazi war crimes, determined that Waldheim participated in intelligence activities that led to the mass deportations of Jews, to the bombing of several Yugoslav villages where partisan activity was suspected, to the interrogation and possible execution of several allied prisoners and to the dissemination of propaganda calling for ...

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