The police said today that they had arrested 29 more guerrillas–20 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine accused of a rocket attack last Dec. 20 and other attacks, and nine in the Ramallah area on suspicion of PFLP membership. The arrests bring to 60 the number of guerrillas apprehended over the past three weeks in Ramallah, East-Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem and Beit Sahur. Hand grenades and ammunition were found in their homes and in caches. Among those taken into custody in the latest roundup were the director of the refugee camp in Ramallah, the director of the school operated there by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and several women UNRWA teachers. It was learned today that a senior UNRWA representative had been called to the Foreign Ministry and told in no uncertain terms that the agency must act to prevent its camps and schools from being used as recruiting grounds for terrorist cells. An Arab youngster was wounded today by an Israeli patrol in Gaza as he fled after being observed inciting shopkeepers to close. His companion was apprehended.
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