I NEWS I Police Investigate Hit-And-Run Murder 0(e6 -stock 3ov)rnoV\es 3e 5e Poss\o Ca oNes\- 6\000- PO P"c\e P11 our \c ■ CE FE.ES NO do`Nc\ ?W. SE.N\CE 0-0C3F3 NOD OW 100 SEE 1S VAANI 0 ati btab u Mop OS MALL 1 t3i3) 649-2300 °\\ ?bone 1° VA° °I 1`1\a0e\a`t Bekv4eec\GO3\ks&C°6\age EASY VkaP\ed RARE U.S. COINS WANTED 1793-1930 Single Coins To Entire Collections IMMEDIATE FUNDS Estate Appraisals • Bullion Coins • Precious Metals All Transactions Held In Strict Confidence Detroit Metro Dealer for over 20 Years Dealer & Bank References Available "Sell Where The Dealers Sell" BNRN Tr c C OR POP! A TION spintv_Auiv In 10Q9 189 MERRILL STREET BIRMINGHAM, MI 48009 (313) 644-1124 FAX (313) 644-3739 Tel Aviv (JTA) — Police have arrested two Israeli Arabs charged with the hit- and-run murder of an Israeli policeman. But the case is a criminal matter unrelated to the in- tifada and without political overtones, Police Inspector General Ya'acov Terner stressed to reporters after one of the suspects re- con- structed the crime. The victim, Police Sgt. Erez Merimo, 24, was buried in Petach Tikvah with full military honors. He was the son of another police officer, Ovadia Merimo, a 33-year veteran of the force. Young Sgt. Merimo died in the course of a car chase following the burglary of a building-supplies store in Kfar Saba. The first suspect arrested was described as a 20- year- old resident of the Israeli Arab village of Taiba. He gave police a taped account of the crime and named two accomplices, one of whom was subsequently arrested. Sgt. Merimo and a fellow officer were on patrol in their car when they received a report of a robbery in pro- gress in Kfar Saba's main street. As they raced to the scene they saw three men speeding off in a car subsequently found to have been stolen from Afula. Another police car blocked the road out of town and Sgt. Merimo's car halted on the road to arrest the suspects. But when Sgt. Merimo got out of his car to wave them down, he was deliberately run over. He had managed to fire two shots at the approaching car before he was hit and dragged nearly 70 feet to his death. The suspects abandoned their car several hundred feet down the road and escaped on foot. A border police tracker picked up the footprints of the two men and followed them toward Taiba village, which police say is a "known haven for burglars and dealers in stolen property." Inspector Terner told reporters that all the policemen involved in the incident acted correctly. But he said the brutal, deliberate murder of officer Merimo suggested that the rules for the pursuit of criminals may have to be changed. He also expressed concern that such a dastardly act by criminals might provoke police officers into "extreme responses beyond what we would like to see and beyond the limitations imposed by law." During the search for the Kfar Saba thieves, hundreds of police raided the homes of known felons in the Israeli Arab villages of Tira and Taiba. More than 50 suspects were detained and large quantities of suspected stolen property were seized, including illegal firearms and stolen auto parts. Missile Expert Backs Claims New York (JTA) — A U.S. expert who has disputed Pentagon claims that American aircraft wreaked destruction on Iraqi Scud missiles during the Persian Gulf War may have vin- dicated an Israel air force general who was sharply rapped this week for saying essentially the same thing. The expert, Scott Ritter, was quoted in a New Yor - Times article as insisting. that "no mobile Scud laun- chers were destroyed during the war," notwithstanding elaborate claims to the con- trary made to American television audiences by top military brass. Mr. Ritter, a former Marine Corps captain, is a ballistic missile analyst with the U.N. commission in charge of supervising the destruction of Iraq's weaponry. He was quoted in an op-ed piece written by Mark Crispin Miller. According to the article, despite the hype aimed at generating public enthusi- asm for the war, U.S. air- craft failed to find, much less destroy, most of the Scud launchers, fixed or mobile.' The Pentagon declared the Scud missile sites "destroyed" on Jan. 16, 1991. A day later, seven Scuds smashed into Tel Aviv. Reserve Maj. Gen. Avihu Bin-Nun, who commanded the Israeli air force during the war, was taken to task by his own government and by the United States for say. ing in an Air Force Day speech last week that the United States not only failed to destroy the Iraqi Scuds but did not even try.