Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon were mentioned today at hearings by the Knesset economic committee into the alleged mismanagement of the bankrupt Autocar Co., a subsidiary of the British Leyland Motor Co. which went into receivership last month. Reserves Gen. Meir Amit, a former chairman of the board of directors of Autocar, said that Sapir had solicited a gift of $24,000 from the firm for the establishment of a youth educational center at Alonim
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