Police have taken special precautions to protect members of the Ajax Football Club which has been the target of anonymous threats. Police said they received numerous phone calls Friday threatening the team because of the Dutch government’s expression of sympathy for the Israeli Olympic athletes murdered by Arab terrorists in Munich last week.
Airport security police were on hand when the team returned from a cup match in Buenos Aires Friday. The team, whose chairman Jacob Van Pragg and player Jacques Swart are Jewish, left the airport under police escort.
Meanwhile the Dutch relatives of Andre Spitzer, one of the II Israelis slain in Munich, reported several anonymous telephone threats. The threats were aimed at Spitzer’s wife and three-month-old daughter who have been hospitalized here since the Munich tragedy. Police said they have been transferred elsewhere.
Twenty-three Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union and Rumania, arrived this afternoon on two separate flights landing at Kennedy Airport, United Hias Service reported. The arrivals will settle in N.Y., N.J. and Chicago.
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