The World - News from April 23, 1985
A senior leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization said the guerrillas aboard a merchant ship sunk by the Israeli navy intended to attack Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv. Khalil Wazir, deputy commander of the PLO’s Fatah faction, said in Amman, Jordan, that the ship was sunk only after the raiding party was put ashore. The Israeli military said a missile boat sank the 1,000-ton freighter 100 miles off the Israeli coast and pulled eight guerrillas from the water, while 20 apparently drowned.
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