NEWS YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T-Shirt! Justice Official Denies Reports Los Angeles (JTA) — A U.S. Justice Department official has denied published reports that Israel has stonewalled American requests to ex- tradite suspected criminals wanted for trial in the United States. The official also declined co- ment on whether his depart- ment has formally asked Israel to extradite Robert Steven Manning, a West Bank resident, who is charg- ed with participating in a mail-bomb murder in Los Angeles in 1980. In the Manning case, the prosecuting U.S. attorney, Nancy Hieben Stock, said that a provisional arrest war- rant, the first step in the ex- tradition process, has been sought from Israeli authorities. The official declined to con- firm or deny this action, or any other matter pertaining to the extradition. "It is up to Israel to make the first announcement," he said, adding that a case usually becomes public when the suspect is arrested at his place of residence. 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CHILD SMALL L 12 STATE J FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1988 Washington (JTA) — Pro- Palestinian terrorists killed 155 fewer people in 1987 than they did in 1986, the State Department revealed Monday in its annual report "Patterns of Global rIbrrorism." The 70-page report said that terrorists killed 295 peo- ple and.wounded 770 in 1987, down from 450 deaths and 1,125 injuries in 1986. But Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip saw roughly the same number of incidents between 1986 and 1987, about 25 percent of the 1986 worldwide total of 774 in- cidents, and 1987 total of 832 attacks. By contrast, the second most popular venue for ter- rorist attacks was Pakistan, site of 17 percent of the incidents. "Israel remained the primary target of Palestinian terrorists in 1987," the report said. It cited an April 1986 at- tack into northern Israel, which killed two Israeli soldiers along with three ter- rorists linked to Al-Fatah, the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. On terrorist acts committ- ted by Jews, the report noted that life sentences for three Jewish settlers convicted of murdering West Bank Arabs were reduced in March 1987. In October, the Knesset defeated a bill that would have pardoned seven members of the Jewish underground who had previously been convicted of "terrorist crimes" against Arabs. U.N. Meeting Knocks Israel Geneva (JTA) — Speakers at a recent U.N. human rights convention accused Israel, in the words of one delegate, of flouting "the most fundamen- tal principles of international law." Delegates to the U.N:s sub- commission on human rights, which recently considered the plight of Syria's Jewish population, turned their at- tention to Israel's handling of the Palestinian "intifada," or uprising. Yves Lausrin, observer for the International Federation of Human Rights, said his organization was "gravely concerned" about human rights violations by Israeli authorities in the ad- ministered territories. The Paris-based Interna- tional Federation was respon- sible for launching an appeal to the Syrian government on behalf of that country's Jews. Other delegates offering criticism of Israel were representatives from Nigeria, Algeria and the Arab Lawyers Union. Squad To Erase Hate Graffiti Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Tel Aviv municipality has set up an "intifada commando" team to erase as quickly as possible vituperative graffiti scribbled around the city.