Latin America’s largest newspaper, La Prensa, declared in an editorial today that there are more than sufficient grounds to believe that anti-Jewish and anti-American extremist organizations are responsible for the fires that destroyed Israeli and United States exhibits in Buenos Aires in recent weeks.
The newspaper referred to the destruction of Israel’s $2 million industrial exhibit on the Buenos Aires fair grounds two weeks ago and the earlier destruction of an American “Atoms for Peace” exhibit on the campus of Cordoba University here. The paper attributed both fires to incendiary bombs and said the case for sabotage was strong even though none of the perpetrators has been identified yet.
La Prensa’s editorial in effect contradicted a statement by Argentine Minister of Interior Guillermo Borda who said a week ago that there was insufficient evidence to link the fire at the Israeli pavilion to a criminal act. The DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry, has taken issue with Dr. Borda’s conclusions.
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