Former Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and his wife, Nina Katzir, are detained for nearly 90 minutes by KGB officials — one of them Hebrew-speaking — in Leningrad after they attempt to visit the home of a Jewish refusenik.
An Austrian diplomat arrives in Tel Aviv with evidence that an Israeli soldier, Hezi Shai, reported missing in Lebanon two years ago, is alive and well, a prisoner of the Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Commond.
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