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Bomb Kills 3 at Post Office
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TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Police investigating the
booby-trap explosion that
killed three people and in-
jured six in the Givatayim
post office Sunday believe it
may have been the result of
a criminal vendetta even
though the Palestine Liber-
ation Organization claimed
that "Palestinian warriors"
were responsible.
Funeral services were
held Monday for two postal
clerks, Aharon Amiga, 53,
and Avraham Joseph, 54,
who were killed when a par-
cel containing a wired hand
grenade exploded, wrecking
part of the post office.
Amiga was the father of,„
nine children and Joseph
the father of eight.
The third fatality was a
woman whose name has not
been released. Sunday
night police detained a man
suspected of having mailed
the parcel.
There were 10 custom-
ers in the post office and
four clerks when the
blast went off at 8 a.m.
cip
shattering the counter
and windows. The roof
fell in on those inside. The
few people who managed
to get outside called for
help and within minutes
the police and ambu-
lances had evacuated the
casualties.
The Free Wallenberg Committee
Begins Letter-Writing Campaign
LOS ANGELES — The
Free Wallenberg Commit-
tee has begun an interna-
tional letter-writing cam-
paign on behalf of Raoul
Wallenberg, the' University
Following the incident, of Michigan educated
police reminded Israelis to Swedish diplomat who
take precautions when re- saved thousands of Hunga-
ceiving parcel post pack- rian Jews from the Nazis,
ages in suspicious contain- and Jan Kaplan, who
ers or from unknown per- swears he spoke with Wal-
lenberg in a Soviet prison
sons.
infirmary in 1975.
Meanwhile, in Yavneh,
After denying that Wal-
south of Tel Aviv, police lenberg was in Soviet cus-
dismantled an explosive de- tody, the Soviet Union offi-
vice. They later arrested cially claims that Wallen-
two Arabs from the Gaza berg died in a Soviet prison
Strip in Jaffa who were be- in 1947.
lieved to have prepared the
Following the eyewitness
device.
report by Kaplan, Soviet
authorities imprisoned
School Dedication Kaplan again. Kaplan is
now elderly and ill, and has
BALTIMORE — The Ner been in prison for three
Israel Rabbinical College in years.
Baltimore will dedicate its
The Free Wallenberg ‘,
new school and library on Committee is urging that
Oct. 19.
letters be sent to U.S. Secre-
tary of State Edmund Mus-
kie, attention Mr. William
T. Shinn Jr., director of the
Office of Soviet Union Af-
fairs, Department of State,
Washington; D.C. 20520.
Letters should also be
sent to Leonid Brezhnev,
chairman of the Presidium,
Moscow, Kremlin, USSR.
The letters should em-
phasize the importance of
helping Kaplan in order to
find out the truth about
Raoul Wallenberg.
The committee also asked
that copies of these letters
be sent, if possible, with
notes of encouragement to
Kaplan's wife: Mrs. Ginda
Kaplan, Zoologechesky 30,
Apt. 54, Moscow, USSR; and
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