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Opening (only) of "ABC World News Tonight" (USA) with anchor Peter Jennings, on April 27, 1987, reporting that Austrian President (and former United Nations Secretary General) Kurt Waldheim has been
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barred by the Reagan Administration from entering the United States on the basis of verified proof of his participation in Nazi crimes during World War II. Such activities rendered him ineligible to enter the country under a 1978 U.S. immigration statute barring the entry of participants in WWII-era Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution. Waldheim thus became the first head of state ever to be formally barred from entering the USA. (Note: On April 22, 1987, the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of State announced that evidence amassed in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) had established a prima facie case that Waldheim participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution during World War II and therefore that his entry into the United States was prohibited by federal statute. The 232-page internal Department of Justice investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website, at: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/legacy/2011/02/04/04-09-87waldheim-rpt.pdf.)
