Twenty-seven members of the Jewish Defense League were released on parole yesterday pending a Sept. 22 hearing in Criminal Court on their occupation Tuesday of the two-floor offices of Amtorg Trading Corp., the Soviet trade mission. The demonstrators were released in their attorney’s custody. State Sen. Paul Bookson assisted the JDL attorney at the arraignment. A JDL spokesman charged that the Jewish militants had been dented food and drink during 26 hours in Jail. He said three of them were temporarily re-incarcerated when Dr. M. T, Mehdi. Secretary General of the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations, who was beaten in reprisal for the terrorist attack May 22 on an Israeli school bus, suddenly appeared on the scene and accused the three of the beating. Both JDL and Amtorg denied published reports that the damage sustained in the JDL action totaled $10-12 million. The JDL spokesman said, “We didn’t damage a thing.”
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