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Rabin Accuses Right
Of Overthrow Plot
Jerusalem (JTA) — Less than 24
hours before Palestine liberation
Organization Chairman Yassir
Arafat was due to start his his-
toric first visit to the Gaza Strip,
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
accused Israel's right wing of plot-
ting to overturn the government
with mass street violence and an
attack on government buildings.
In what Israel Radio described
as an "unprecedented violent ver-
bal attack on the opposition," mr.
Rabin charged that a massive fi-
nancial campaign was being
launched in Israel and abroad to
organize demonstrations against
the Arafat visit.
• The verbal attacks came as vi-
olence erupted near the Israeli
border in Gaza, where members
of the Islamic fundamentalist
llamas movement opened fire on
Israeli soldiers traveling in a jeep.
Two soldiers were wounded,
one moderately and one slightly,
according to a military
spokesman.
The gunmen, members of the
Izz a-Din al-Kassam armed wing
of Hamas, later claimed that the
shootings were a "salute" to hon-
or Mr. Arafat's arrival.
Mr. Rabin, meanwhile, fore-
casting a "very stormy weekend,"
told a Labor Party gathering that
settlers who have been encamped
in a tent city opposite the Prime
Minister's Office the past few
weeks to demonstrate against the
Israeli-Palestine liberation Or-
ganization peace initiative were
planning to engage in a con-
frontation in eastern Jerusalem.
Such a move, he warned,
would be a flagrant provocation
aimed at the capital's Palestin-
ian residents and would be dealt
with swiftly and drastically.
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres said the right-wing cam-
paign is not merely a struggle
over conflicting- visions of the fate
of Israel, or even an attempt to
undermine the peace agreement.
Instead, he said, it is an at-
tempt to attack Israeli democra-
cy.
Police Minister Moshe Shahal
warned that the planned protests
were in clear contravention of the
law, but that the police were not
planning to carry out any pre-
ventive arrests.
Michael Fay
Thanks Israelis
Jerusalem (JTA)— Michael Fay,
the young American sentenced
to a caning in Singapore for van-
dalizing cars last fall, thanked
the people of Israel for "doing
their best to help" him.
Upon his release from jail, Mr.
Fay, whose father is Jewish and
the son of Holocaust survivors,
gave Israel Radio an exclusive in-
terview in recognition of the in-
terest the radio station had
generated in his case.
A number of Israelis had re-
acted strongly to the story of the
19-year-old Fay and the flogging
to which he was sentenced after
pleading guilty to acts of vandal-
ism.
Mr. Fay told Israel Radio that
he had been punched in the face
and head and pulled from his
chair by his hair during his in-
terrogation at the hands of Sin-
gapore police officers.
He denied that he had spray-
painted cars, but admitted that
stolen traffic signs had been
found in his possession.
He said that other youths
caught during a police anti-van-
dalism sweep had also been beat-
en by the police. Mr. Fay
remained silent about his flog-
ging, saying he would speak of
that only when he was back in
the United States.
When Mr. Fay was released,
his father, George Fay, told re-
porters in Singapore that his son
had survived the caning and 83
days of imprisonment better than
he had expected.
After pleading guilty to the
vandalism charges, Michael Fay
was sentenced to six lashes on his
bare buttocks with a rattan rod
— but the penalty was later re-
duced to four after President
Clinton issued an appeal for
clemency.
The youth was also fined
$2,000 and sentenced to four
months in prison, but the sen-
tence was later reduced for good
behavior.
George Fay told reporters that
his son's Jewish background had
"struck a chord in Israel" and that
human rights groups there had
joined the appeal on Michael
Fay's behalf.
During his interview with Is-
rael Radio, Michael Fay said that
after the caning he shook the
hand of the person who had ad-
ministered the lashes, saying he
had done so as a matter of pride.
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