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...Peronist guerrillas were killed by police two years ago. Police attempts to break up the demonstration touched off a five-hour battle. One Peronist youth was killed by a tear-gas canister fired at pointblank range, and the melee was broken up only when army units moved in. Juan Abal Medina, a leader of Perón's Justicialist Party whose brother had been killed in the 1970 Shootout, threatened more confrontations. "If the armed forces continue with their campaign of violence," he said, "they will lead Peronist youth...
Egypt's few Jews are steadily harassed. There are only about 1,000 left, and it is believed that all heads of families, and younger males as well, have been jammed into the Abu Za-abal prison camp near Ismailia. Crushed together in tiny cells, they are allowed no visitors, are often beaten and poorly fed. In Libya, 20 Jews were slain by angry mobs in the wake of the Six-Day War, and the suddenly concerned authorities allowed about 3,500 to leave. Fewer than 1,000 remain, and a good many of these are reported...
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