The Israel-Egypt Mixed Armistice Commission decided today to postpone until tomorrow consideration of the case of the Bat Galim, Israel vessel seized by the Egyptians in Suez waters late in September, an Israel military spokesman announced here.
A United Nations press officer in Jerusalem reported that the Egyptian delegation to the MAC session brought letters from the members of the Bat Galim crew, imprisoned in Cairo, and handed them to the Israel delegation.
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