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TOM TUGEND
Special to the Jewish News
L
os Angeles — An Amer-
ican-Israeli couple has
been indicted by a
federal grand jury in a case
that has been linked to the
mail-bomb deaths of an Arab
activist and a suspected Nazi
war criminal. The couple,
Robert Steven and Rochelle
Ida Manning, who both hold
dual American and Israeli
citizenship, has been charged
with mailing an explosive
device with intent to kill.
Mrs. Manning, 48, was ar-
rested last month as she ar-
rived with her two children at
the international airport in
Los Angeles, while Robert
Manning, 36, remained in the
family home at Kiryat Arba.
The Jewish settlement near
Hebron is known as one of the
most militant on the West
Bank.
According to federal of-
ficials, the Mannings con-
spired in 1980 to mail a bomb,
When the
"invention" was
plugged into an
electric outlet, it
exploded:'
disguised as a "new inven-
tion," to the head of the Pro-
west Computer Corp. in Los
Angeles. When the "inven-
tion" was plugged into an
electric outlet it exploded,
killing Patricia Wilkerson, a
secretary at the company. No
motive has been given for the
alleged crime.
At the same time, six pre-
sent and former members of
the Jewish Defense League
have been subpoenaed by the
grand jury in the case, JDL of-
ficials told reporters. Several
of the subpoenaed JDL of-
ficials charged that the grand
jury was on a "fishing expedi-
tion" to smoke out evidence
linking the Mannings to
three other bomb cases in the
U.S., all dating back to 1985.
Victims in the three, so far
unsolved cases, were:
Alex M. Odeh, regional
director of the Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Commit-
tee, who died when a bomb
exploded in his office in San-
ta Ana, California. Los
Angeles newspapers quoted
FBI officials as saying that
the Manning couple, and
three other persons living in
Israel, are suspects in the
Odeh slaying.
Tscherim Soobsokov, an
alleged wartime member of
the Waffen SS, who was kill-
ed by a bomb planted in his
home in Patterson, N.J.
Elmars Sprogis, an alleged
war criminal as police chief of
a Latvian town, who escaped
injury when a bomb exploded
outside his house in Brent-
wood, New York.
The Mannings, as well as
other suspects living in
Kiryat Arba, were described
by federal officials as former
JDL members and currently
ardent followers of Rabbi
Meir Kahane, head of the ex-
tremist right-wing Kach Par-
ty in Israel. Former JDL of-
ficials summoned to testify
before the grand jury are
Barry Krugel and Steve Sam-
son. Four others have been
subpoenaed to supply
photographs, fingerprints and
palm prints. They are Louise
Solomon, Leah Krugel, Earl
Krugel and Bruce Derflinger.
Rochelle Manning is being
held without bail. Robert
Manning has gone into seclu-
sion at his Kiryat Arba home.
Although he has been in-
dicted, U.S. authorities have
not asked for his extradition
from Israel.
Israeli military and police
authorities said that they
have no reports of trouble in-
volving Robert Manning
since he first moved to Israel
in 1973.
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Jerusalem (JTA) — A
Jewish Agency official
defended Israel's new policy
with respect to Jews leaving
the Soviet Union, but said he
did not believe it would solve
the dropout problem.
Uri Gordon, head of the
agency's immigration and ab-
sorption department, said
Soviet Jews do not know
enough about Israel or
Judaism, and cannot learn as
long as there are no
diplomatic ties between
Jerusalem and Moscow.
According to Jewish Agen-
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three months of this year,
every Jew who emigrated
from the city of Kharkov with
an Israeli visa went to the
United States.
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