Jerusalem police, acting on a tip, swooped down yesterday on a print shop and confiscated a huge supply of handbills of the extremist Neturei Karta sect which contained anti-Government smears and demands that Jerusalem be placed under international control, police headquarters reported today.
The police added they acted too late to prevent removal of thousands of the handbills from the print shop which were showered by sect members on participants and spectators in a parade here yesterday in protest against the projected swimming pool in which mixed bathing will be permitted. Some 10, 000 men and women marched in the parade which was organized by the Agudas Israel.
The Neturei Karta, which boycotted the parade because it was staged with police authorization, sought to inflame the crowd with the smear pamphlets, police said. When the Agudat organizers noticed the tactic, they used loudspeakers to disown the pamphlets and the Neturei Karta.
The parade sponsors also used loudspeakers to dispute the contents of pamphlets circulated during the parade by labor sources, including Poale Zion and Achdut Avodah. These pamphlets called the anti-pool demonstration an effort at “religious compulsion” and one of “pushing the clock back to the dark ages. ” A number of persons arrested yesterday for creating disturbances during the parade were released today on their own recognizance.
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