Jury selection was scheduled to begin in a civil lawsuit brought by Jewish activist Rabbi Avi Weiss against Washington-based Howard University. Weiss claims that a security guard grabbed a sign from him and struck him on the hand while ordering him and four other protesters to stop their April 1994 demonstration outside a university auditorium where Nation of Islam official Khalid Muhammed was appearing. Weiss is seeking more than $100,000 in damages.
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