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Bomb casualties mount, Israel vows revenge
Funeral home dedication In behalf of the Ike Friedman family, Roz Friedman attaches a mezuzah to the Louis Friedman Jewish Funeral Home, 4415 Cuming Street during the dedication ceremony last week. More coverage on page four.
By David Landau and Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)Israel has vowed revenge against the perpetrators of Tuesday's bomb attack on, the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, in which at least 10 people were killed and some 200-injured. Foreign Minister David Levy, in a brief and somber statement to the Knesset, said there would be "painful punishment" meted out to those who plotted the attack and those who carried it out. In Beirut, the Islamic Jihad, the hmdamentalist Moslem group, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. The group seemed to point a finger at an Argentine citizen whom it called "Abu Yasser," for a deed it called heroic, carried out to avenge Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbaa Mussawi last month. Israeli security forces were taking at face value the Islamic Jihad announcement claiitaing re-' sponsibility. But it was not clear whether the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization had in fact planted the bomb or was only taking credit for it. Argentine Interior Minister Jose Luis Manzano issued a statement Wednes-
day calling the attack "an international terrorist blow with the help of some local neo-Nazi elements." In Washington, President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker conveyed their sympathy and outrage in both a public statement and in private conversations with Israeli leaders. "The United States is shocked and outraged by the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires yesterday which also claiined some Argentinian lives," State Department spokeswoman Margaret iSitwiler said Wednesday. She said the United States had offered its assistance to the Israeli ambassador in Buenos Aires, although she did not elaborate. "We are also shocked and outraged by the stabbings of two Israelis in Israel yesterday. These are savage acts of terrorism. They are tragic reminders of the dangers that the'Israeli people face and the constant threats against Israel's very right to exist," Tut,wiler added. Israeli experts said that although it was too early to pinpoint responsibility, both the bombing in Buenos Aires and the stabbing deaths the same day in Jaffa seemed to in-
dicate the work of Islamic fundamentalist groups. The Jaffa killer, Raed alReefi, was a member of Hamas, the Islamic militant organization ba^ in the Gaza Strip, from which the Palestinian attacker had come. The eiqiloaion in Buenos Aires was set off by a car bomb. Just before the blast, a car in front of the embassy seemed to catch fire and explode, an eyewitness told Argentine police. On Tuesday, Argentine President Carlos Menem said he believed the attack could have been perpetrated by Argentine neo-Nazis or a far-right paramilitary group. ^ut at a news conference in Buen6s Aires later that day, Menem said, "All indications lead us to believe it was a terrorist attack that has come from people outside the country, a group of foreigners who are working in Buenos Aires." Levy told the Knesset that Israel had requested, and Argentina agreed, that no heavy earthmoving equipment he used in the rescue work until a team of Israeli rescue experts had reached the scene.
Wolf prize winners TEL AVIV (JTA)-8dmtiats associated with three major American univwaiUaa are among the eight 1993 Wolf Prize winnera anno<mceH by the Wc^Foundttknifai Israel The 1109,000 awards' wiU be preaented by Preaident Chaim Herxog on May 17 in Jerusalem. T1>e chamistiy prise has ben woo by Britisb-bora John Anthooy Pople, a Erofeaaor at CarnegieleDon Univmity in Pittaburgh. Popte, M. waa dted by the fmnidatiao as "par hapa the moat tnfhieBtlal cootributor to the theory of molecular structure." The aatnnoiny prise will f» to Profseeof Joaeph •ylor Jr. trf Princeton Univanity, for his discov•ry of aa orfaitiac radio polaar sod ita nse to vartiy, to Ufh prtdsioo, Eiaatatn's giMnl theory of relativity. Taytor. 60. U credited
with advancing the use of pulsars aa astronomical tools. The 1992 Wolf Prize in medicine has been awarded to Dr. M. Judah Folkman, a profeasor of anatomy and researcher at the Harvard University Medical School. Folkman, 69. waa aetectad for hie diacovarias raUting to the devalopmant of blood veeseb. Two radpienta will share the mathamatica prize. They are Profeeaor Lambert CariaoB, 63, of Stockholm, wlio has taught at Uppeala Univaraity and more recently at tlw Univaraity of Califomia, Loa' Angeke, and Profeeaor Jolu Thompeon, 69,. who
teaches at Cambridge University in, England. Three ardiitects have been chosen to ahare the prise in the arta, FrankOerhy,62,ofSanU Monica, Calif.; Jam U^ eon, 73, of Copenhagen: and Sir Dsoya Lasdun, 77, of London, were honored for "their consistency in seeking ever-extended fields of freedom" in their srchitectural creationa. The Wolf Foundation was esUbliahad in laraal in 1976 by the late Or. tUcardo Wolf, a Oennan-boni inventor and kof-time raeident of Cuba. lU sUt«l purpose is "to promote sdanoe and art for the benefit of mankind."
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