Police instruck were called to break up a clash between two groups of students here who came to blows over an anti-Semitic remark shouted by members of a radical student organization, when Charles Charoff, identified as an American, entered a local coffee house. The fight developed outside the coffee house after several of the anti-Semites called the American a “Pig Jew” and told him to get out.
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