RABBI FILES LIBEL SUIT AGAINST GLEMP HIBERNIANS REINSTATE OUSTED GROUP DRUG FIRMS ASKED TO STAY IN PROGRAM.(Local)

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Rabbi Avraham Weiss filed a $50,000 libel and slander suit Thursday against Cardinal Jozef Glemp, charging that the Polish prelate falsely accused him of trying to kill a group of nuns two years ago.

The lawsuit stems from a July 1989 protest in which Weiss and others climbed a wall around a convent near the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They objected to its presence at a site where Jews were murdered by Nazis.

Weiss, of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, accused Glemp of slandering him when the cardinal expressed relief in a homily a month later that "a squad of seven Jews from New York" …