Israeli sources said Thursday that Egypt is expected shortly to return the bodies of two members of the terrorist underground Stern Group who were hanged in Cairo in 1945 for the assassination of the British resident minister, Lord Moyne. The newspaper Yediot Achronot cited recent statements by President Anwar Sadat to this effect.
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