The State Department received word today that on Egyptian named Bark Mirsil was sentenced this week to 15 years hard labor for the sander last July of Stephen Haas, a Philadelphia Jew.
Hass and his wife were tourists in Cairo when an angry mob attacked and killed Mr. Haas. Mrs. Baas escaped injury. State Department press officer Michael J. Mo-Dermott said today that he understood Mrs. Baas is thinking of filing a claim against the Egyptian Government. Two other persona on trial with Mirsil ware acquitted, Mo-Dermott said.
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