Two members of the Jewish Defense League were convicted of juvenile delinquency Friday in Manhattan federal court for dousing a Soviet diplomat with beef blood near the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Mitchell Rein, 18, of Brooklyn, and Zelig Spirn, 19, of Far Rockaway, N.Y. were placed on probation and ordered to pay up to $50 in cleaning the spattered clothes of German M. Kosenov, the second secretary at the mission. The spattering took place during a demonstration near the mission on March 15, 1973. German was the key witness for the prosecution at the trial last June. Federal Judge Harold R. Tyler, Jr., in announcing probation, said he was being “far more tolerant of your persons and rights than you were to a man who was a stranger to you.”
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