A leading Jewish journalist received a telephone threat a few hours before terrorists’ incendiary bombs touched off an explosion and fire which destroyed a $2 million Israeli commercial exhibit in downtown Buenos Aires yesterday. The caller said that such an attack was being planned, the DAIA, central representative body of Argentine Jewry, disclosed today.
In reporting that Juan Rodolfo Rosenberg had been the victim of a telephone threat, the DAIA also said that the attack on the exhibit and the bombing of the Nachman Gesang Zionist Center in Rosario City, 160 miles northwest of here, last Monday night were new “criminal episodes” in a “long series of provocations.” The statement reiterated an appeal “for energetic public action against the provoking elements.”
Firemen brought the exhibit fire under control after seven hours. Among the exhibits lost in the blaze were agricultural machines, medical supplies, electronic parts, computers, and 199 irreplaceable oil paintings by Israel artists, as well as Jewish, Christian and Moslem religious articles. The exhibit was to have opened in several weeks. The sponsors say it cannot be rebuilt.
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