WHO HAS ITS 11/-\fit'— stiter s ' *R10111C11 ai New Italian Book Implicates Israel GIFT-WORLD Rome (JTA) — A book re- cently released in Italy implicates Israel in the mysterious crash of an Italian domestic passenger plane in 1980 in which 81 people lost their lives. Israeli officials have de- nounced the findings of The Fifth Scenario, by jour- nalists Claudio Gatti and Gail Hammer, as "ridiculous." And Italian journalists have pointed out that the new explanation for the crash — a misfired Israeli fighter jet — is full of holes. The June 27, 1980, crash of an Itavia. Airlines DC9 into the Mediterranean Sea on a flight from Bologna to Palermo, Sicily, has remain- ed one of the great mysteries of Italy's postwar period. Examination of wreckage recovered from the seabed, near the island of Ustica, northwest of Sicily, in- dicated that the plane was probably either destroyed by a bomb or — more likely — shot down by a missile. Despite nearly 14 years of investigation, however, it has never been established who placed the bomb or who fired the missile, whichever it was, or why it occurred at all, although it is assumed that the missile would have been fired in error. Various theories have pointed a finger at Libya, France, Italy or the United States, with the hypothesis that the Itavia plane was either hit by a missile that went astray during a train- ing exercise, or that it got caught in some other type of cross fire. There have been many ac- cusations of cover-up. According to the theory propounded in The Fifth Scenario, Israel — under direct orders of then Prime Minister Menachem Begin — sent two Phantom jets, along with support planes, to intercept a French cargo plane that was transporting enriched uranium from France to Iraq for its nuclear reactor. The fighter jets, the theory states, mistook the Itavia DC9 for the plane carrying the uranium and shot it down. 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The French plane that was supposed to leave on June 27 did not take off, according to The Fifth Scenario. Therefore, the book claims, the Israelis fired at a plane in the anticipated air coor- dinates, only to down • in error the Italian passenger jet, which had taken off two hours late. The book claims it is this tragedy that prompted Mr. Begin to suffer a heart at- tack and collapse in the Knesset on June 30 and that led to the start of a mental collapse that forced him out of politics. According to the book, op- position to Mr. Begin's plan to shoot down the French The book claims this tragedy prompted Mr. Begin's heart attack. plane may have led to Defense Minister Ezer Weizman's resignation a month before the tragedy. The book says Israeli Col. Ran Goren, head of the Israeli air force's operational department, was removed from his position as punish- ment and sent to the United States, ostensibly to take part in a study course. Col. Goren has denied the claim in an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot. The spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Rome has categorically denied the ac- cusations. Andrea Purgatori, writing in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, said the book contained much documenta- tion and testimony but left many questions unresolv- ed. ❑ Today the professional Jew- ish boxer is all but extinct in this country, but the big city ghettos of past decades pro- duced many Jewish cham- pions who learned to box to defend themselves against street gangs. Among them were Abe Attell, Benny Leonard, Ruby Goldstein and Barney Ross.