Five vandals defaced 28 pictures Friday at a “USSR Photo 70” exhibit at the New York Cultural Center, according to witnesses questioned by the police. No motive has been established and no suspects apprehended. The Jewish Defense League, which advocates violent action against anti-Israel interests in the United States, said it has “nothing but praise for those gallant persons who, seeing the plight of Soviet Jewry…took those steps which they deemed necessary to spotlight the plight…to a world that would much rather forget about them. A spokesman for the Police Department said the exhibit was on an upper floor and that the vandals had apparently infiltrated the center by means other than the front entrance, where possessions must be checked.
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