A 64-year-old American Jew named Harry Stone, formerly Steinman, was shot and killed by Jordan border guards last night when he failed to heed their orders to halt as he approached the frontier in central Israel. Stone carried a mariner’s papers and had been living in Shaar Haaliya.
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