A large police force, converging on City Hall last night, rescued Mayor Shlomo Lehat and seven senior municipality officials who had been held captive by angry slum dwellers for more than an hour in the Mayor’s office.
A group of about 40 persons from the depressed Hatikva quarter showed up for a scheduled meeting with the Mayor to air their grievances. They also demanded recognition as a youth group and a special budget of 300,000 Shekels for their activities. When Lehat refused, an argument developed during which some of the group nailed the door shut, preventing the Mayor and his councilmen from leaving. They relented after the police threatened them with mass arrests.
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